Universal Service Scheme.
BydDey, Sept 17. Mr Holman, Premier, replying to adverse criticisms of tbe universal service scheme, points out that during the first year of the war Great Britain got 16 per centum of her total male population under the colours, while Australia got less than four percentum for her colours. The people come forward four times slower than the comparatively unwarlike population of the Old Country. This is "not because there is any less readiness on our part to face daDger, but rjecause the whole British people are united in a,gigantic recruiting campaign and there are no carpers.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6492, 20 September 1915, Page 4
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