DOMINION WAR NOTES.

Northern Advocate, 16 September 1914, Page 5

DOMINION WAR NOTES.

A TRADERS' MANIFESTO

WELLINGTON, Sept. 15,

"Buy freely, pay promptly," is the message contained in a manifesto* to the public tissued by the Canterbury Employers' Association). The manifesto says: "The Canterbury Employers ' Association at this juncture would seek to impress upon the community the necessity of renewing normal trade. With the first shock over, with financial facilities restored, there is no adequate reason why the ordinal, life of the community should not go on. We are confident that good prices for our primary products will prevail next season, and would emphasise that a minimum of dislocation of Canterbury and New Zealand trade will be assured, if each will to-day shoulder his share Of the responsibility, and thus second the efforts of the employers who are straining every resource to keep, the industries of business of the district running as usual.

"We have nobly responded to the call for troops; we can now best serve the country and the Empire by resuming, our everyday work and providing for any further call upon our resources, such as Lord Kitchener in his eloquent speech has foreshadowed

may be necessary. The two mottoes should be 'buy freely,' 'pay promptly.' We. make this statement to the, public with a full realisation of the fact that we, the suppliers of goods on credit, will necessarily have to stand the loss if our opinions prove wrong and industrial depression results from the war. It-stands to reason, therefore, that self-interest would prevent our publishing this manifesto if we were not convinced of its correctness." MORE CONTINGENTS. As it will be necessary to despatch regular reinforcements for the New Zealand expeditionay force in order to keep it up to its full strength, arrangements are now being made to establish 2 permanent camp for the purpose.Tbe camp, it has been decided, will be held at Trehtham, where* the reinforcements will be put through a.course of six weeks' training and "then despatched abroad. When the reinforcements' camp is started of course depends upon the date of the departure of the main expedition for • Europe. This wholly rests with the navy. Both the transports and the men have been ready to make a prompt departure for some days past. Exactly how many reinforcements New Zealand will require to send remains to be seen. It is estimated, however, that fully ,1600 officers and men will be despatched within four or five weeks after the departure of the main body to reinforce it, and, further, though in much smaller batches, men will be forwarded at monthly intervals until the war Js over. ' .. < So far as the reinforcements of the Samoan force is concerned, the Government has made no announcement up to the present. The course of training for new drafts will last for thirty-six. working days (six weeks), each man proceeding to camp must bring with him rifle, cap, working suit, kit-bag, and sea-kit bag, to be provided under arrangements made by the district headquarters. With this exception, the men will be fully equipped by the permanent camp staff. Units will call for the names of volunteers and be prepared to send their quotas to the concentration camps on receipt of orders to do so. Every territorial unit should maintain a list of volunteers, so that, when the drafts have to be provided there will be no delay in calling for names. Pay will be granted as laid down for the expeditionary force, and will commence on the day of arrival in the camps.