THE NECESSITY FUR REMOUNTS.

Evening Star, Issue 11152, 30 January 1900, Page 3

THE NECESSITY FUR REMOUNTS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir.,—Our lads in Sjuth Africa are perishing for want of remounts. Everyone knov a this to be ao, and there is no need to ask any questions on the subject either at Home or at the Cape. The New Z?aland Government, for some extraordinary re:* on difficult to understand, absolutely decline to Bend fresh horses. They seem to think that the despatch of a contingentwith inferior Biddies, bridles, and boots beginu and ends their responsibility. Surely the people of Njw Zealand have clearer, Btronger, and junter views of the situation. The Patriotic Fund was generously subscribed with a full measure. The fnnds for widows and orphans are ample for many yeara to come. Meanwhile ou: very "own boys" are in urgent need of horses to enable them to perform the work demanded by their commanding officers. Want of good remounts may and does mean death to our Contingent. Cannot £2 000 or £3,000 be taken as a loan from the Patriotic Fund for obtaining an immediate supply of fresh remounts? The need is urgent—cannot wait. I re.fuse to believe that any subscriber would object. If we leave our lads, after sendiug them away with words of love and affiction, to find that these words were mere froth, signifying nothing, then a shameful memory will attach to these days.—l am, etc , W.LS. January 30. P.S.— Subscriptions will no doubt coma in freely to the Remount Fund, but immediate action ia a crying necessity.