PETITION FROM ROTO ROA
INMATES ANXIOUS TO ENLIST, j About sixty inmates of the Roto Roa/ Inebriates' Home are petitioning Parlia/ ment to be allowed to enlist. Thy point out that the country is calling / . men for the front and for agriculto-jf purposes, while they, physically J\ mentally fit, are living in a state semi- idleness at a cost of £1 per wi .. I " At least seventy-five of these men.\ the petition runs, " are fit any day tJ^ go into the harvest field and do a real "" hard day's work. About three-quarters < of these men are here solely for breaches of prohibition orders, not ', for excessive drinking, and if released several would volunteer for the front, and the balancewould take up farming."
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 55, 2 September 1915, Page 8
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122PETITION FROM ROTO ROA Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 55, 2 September 1915, Page 8
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