SOLDIERS' WEEK-END LEAVE
I wonder who was responsible for the framing of the new regulation cutting out week-end leave? Did-be ever belong to a union? Is union in New Zealand that wotyNi put up with this treatment? Perhaps he cannot imagine that there ate thousands of married home-loving soldiers in our camps who wifl bitterly resent being kept away froih their homes for four months without a break. Would any unionist working in any essential industry tolerate such treatment? Of course not, and rightly so. Besides the married men, there are many boys of 18,1$ and 20 years of age, some of whom have never been away from hoHie before. Now they are thrust into camps. The week-end leave, once a month, mark you, was something to look forward to. To the soldiers four months is a long time. To officers whose job takes them round the country where they have plenty of variety, it is not so long. The sooner the regulation is cancelled and week-end leave restored the better.
FAIR PLAY TO SOLDIERS
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 237, 7 October 1942, Page 2
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