MILITARY OBLIGATIONS OF MARRIED MEN
Sir.--I quite agree with Alfred Houghton's letter of January 13, There are far too many single “sine die" sitting on the fence, while the married men go to camp. "B.Y’s.” in reply, says these will be reviewed. Let us hope so, and soon. This week a batch of married farmers were taken from this district, and these represented some 130,000 sheep and approximately 150 milking cows, besides beef cattle, fat lambs, aqd agricultural crops. Are not these things essential to the country? If not, why are single “sine die" men—whose production on their fathers' farms is no more essential —allowed to “wave them good-bye”? (I don't know if they wished them luck.) However, the wives of these farmer soldiers will do their bit to carry on and keep the home fires burning. The fault, will not be theirs if the country is short of more than potatoes next season.—Yours.' etc., ONE OF THE WIVES. Kaikoura, January 16, 1942.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23541, 20 January 1942, Page 8
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