CORRESPONDENCE.
A BUSH VOLUNTEER'S COMPLAINT.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE STAR.
Sir, — I consider the Government have thrown dirty water on the Waimato Rifle Volunteers. They have brought the Alexandra "Cavalry and placed, them, in the redoubt, leaving about ten families with their children* unprotected in the bush, except with about twenty of the volunteers in tents and whares, who get no pay, but have to be at any expense that the company may incur. An honor to be a volunteer of such a company, I consider is dearly bought, for the time that has been lost for drills and parades is, I consider, an item to a working man, every Saturday being lost, besides evenings. Then there are the flying reports coming from town, knocking the bushmen of their work, through dread of being called in at a moment's notice, for we in the bush cannot get any news, except flying reports of the carters. — I am, &c, A Bush Volxtnteeb. Bush, Manaia, Nov. 8, 1881.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 170, 9 November 1881, Page 2
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