Says Youth Won’t Dance, Or Fight
[Special to “Northern Advocate.”] KAIKOHE, This Day. “There is no response to the Army of today, and therefore I propose the toast to the -Army of yesterday.” This statement was made at the annual Returned Soldiers’ Association smoko at Kaikohe on Thursday eveneng by Mr E. Newton, when proposing the toast of the Army. “You only have to go to a dance to see the young fellows standing round the door. “They won’t dance and they won’t go to the war,” he stated. Mr F. G. Dibble, replying to the toast, said that the standard of the present-day Army was quite high, despite the fact that they were lacking in numbers. The young chaps today know a lot more of the horrors of warfare than we did, and that is keeping a lot of them back,” he stated. He expressed the view that if the age limit was raised a number of returned men would enlist.
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Northern Advocate, 26 April 1940, Page 6
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