OUR BOYS AT MATARAE.
TO THE EDITOR, Sir, —As regards the letter of “Father” in Saturday’s issue, I agree with certain of his statements re the military camp. Perhaps in addition to the mothers going out and preparing hot meals, etc., their aunts might also go, to fill the hot water bottles and. give them warming pans. Do you think for a moment that if war were declared, and our boys were called away to fight lor their country, that care would be taken to see that a hot meal and a cup of tea was ready for them at the end of a long day’s strenuous march? If sufficient thought were taken you would eee that this camp life gives our Territorial* some slight idea, at least of what has to be put up with in time of war. lam certainly aware that it is a distinctly bad lime of the year to hold a camp, but, considering all things, I feel that the boys ought to put up _ with these inconveniences, seeing that it is for such a short period. Surely we do not wish our boys to bo mollycoddles.—l am, etc.', P.H.J.R. April 28.
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Evening Star, Issue 15479, 29 April 1914, Page 5
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197OUR BOYS AT MATARAE. Evening Star, Issue 15479, 29 April 1914, Page 5
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