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Grey River Argus, 27 October 1915, Page 5

Dr A. K. Newman, M.P., speaking at an amateur sports bodies' recruiting meeting at Wellington, said that he thought it rather mean that some men -would not let their sons go and fight, but were letting other fathers' sons go and fight for them. He knew of one man who had called his four sons together, and had said to them, "If any cne of you goes to to the front, he won't get a shilling.." A vcice "A man like that ought to be .shot!" and another: "He is liable to imprisonment for that." Dr Newman: "That may be. But, of course, he only says that sort of thing in the bosom of his family." Mr C r G. Wil. son said he thought it -was the mothers rather than the fathers who were keeping the boys at home. They thought it all right for other mothers' boys to go. But they wouldn't let their oavu boys go. They openly said that it would break their hearts if their boys were to go. He thought that theso mothers ought- to realise more keenly their own duty and their sons' duty t>: -:he Empire and to humanity. (Applause)