POSITIVELY THE LAST CHANCE.
(TO TH« EDITOR.! Sir, —Quite recently the Hon. James Allen announced that he had a “Rod in Pickle” for the family shirker, and he minutely described how he (Mr. Allen) proposed to deal with him. Recruiting Officers in the various centres have been sounding words of warning to the municipal bodies, and County Councils have been asked to lend a hand to round up the shirker, and still the shirker is growing larger and larger. Valuable time has been wasted in vain and feeble threats, and the Military Act hangs suspended like Mahomet’s coffin, between heaven and earth. The flaceidity shown by the Defence Department has been one cf the most discreditable blots on the National Government. It has covered the administratiSn with ridicule. In the meantime the slackers are sitting tight, the fat young men are training their horses and collecting their rents, and our boys at the front are getting killed and wounded, and the Hon. James Allen gives the shirker one more chance.—l am, etc.. PUKAKO. Hastings, Oct. 19th, 1916.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 261, 20 October 1916, Page 2
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177POSITIVELY THE LAST CHANCE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 261, 20 October 1916, Page 2
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