HIGH PRICES FOR SOLDIERS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22850, 25 October 1939, Page 13

HIGH PRICES FOR SOLDIERS

, patria.—Name not given, rrothers.— Suggest you make your proposal to the Defence authorities.

ro rBE edit oh or rax pses& Sir,—Much is being written about' -ices in canteens at our military uses and from the footnote supplied v Mr F. Picot. of the Internal Marking Division, to "A Volunteer’s” >tter it can be seen that the soldiers n cainp must pay from his 7s a day hp same price for a bottle of lemonas the labourer in the same, camp, dio gets 17s a day, and who is not unLi, to give his life if necessary for i, country. Profits at the present ■Zg should be non-existent and the rices to our soldiers should be strictly •holesale. The regimental funds— Lflts from the soldiers’ purchases—nit be taken to buy instruments, etc.. Ihich are a Government obligation to «si«t in the training of the s troops. ST men in camp need the benefit of i.t Da y in full, as most of them have riven up positions carrying a much ’"L, payment. It is an injustice to •kfree men a farthing more than is necessary for costs to be met.—Yours. 2tc - C. R. SMITH. October 24, 1939.