WHEN THE FACTS WERE KNOWN.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2879, 25 February 1916, Page 3

WHEN THE FACTS WERE KNOWN.

ST. KILDA DI'JOIDES TO ASSIST, Dunedin, February '25. The St. Kilda Council, who recently ideclinetl lo fake action in the new recruiting scheme- on the ground that voluntaryism had heeii worked thread bare and that compulsion «a« necessary, reconsidered the matter last night, when they wore addressed hv the Minister ol Defence, and decided, after learning new facts, to pledge themselves In give every assistance to tlie Kcheuie, especially as the Minis tcr pledged himself that il the scheme proved unsuccessful he would retire from, ollice if coinimlßtitv service did not become hnv. It may bo mentioned I hat six ol the ten councillors are young married men. eligible for .service, and they considered that canvassing for other eligible* was decidedly obnoxious. The Minister pointed out that the- principal duty of municipalities was to undertake acts ol organisation.