POLE-PENTON’S DISPLAY.
{To the Editor of the Times.) Sir, —Permit me to express tho pleasure I felt that you should take up the cudgels as regards the treatment of Volunteers at the bands of Colonel Pole-Penton, and to furtlior state ‘the deep regret I have that the men who were termed by that individual “ curs ” should not immediately have thrown down everything the Government could lay claim <to, and have walked straight away. That a servant of tho New Zealand Military Force should bo allowed, by virtue of his position, to grossly insult men—in many cases possibly his superiors—seems almost incredible, and is assuredly not calculated to foster a movement which but a few days back it was deemed so desirable to forward. Those who have served as Volunteers in bygone time, when martial law was proclaimed, would have risked “ cells,” or any other punishment, sooner than be subjected to such an indignity. I could mention instances where officers have received public castigation from the tongues of their superiors for much lesser offences.—l am, etc,, Sixty-four to Sixty-eight.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 139, 22 June 1901, Page 3
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178POLE-PENTON’S DISPLAY. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 139, 22 June 1901, Page 3
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