CANADA
NATIONAL REGISTRATION URGED (Rec. April 18, 8.20 a.m.) . OTTAWA. April 17._ A d,--,r; .'.u'on representing 42 recruiting le;ii-..rs in various provinces waited on the'"Cabinet urging national registration. Thev declared that men were not comin'r forward in sufficient numbers, while "the. high proportion of man'ied! men, each costing £8 more monthly than single men,'was not desirable. Sir R- BorcLen, while- promising; to •rive the matter"consideration, declined to commit himself to'the abandonment of voluntaryism;. He admitted, that there wore loopholes in the voluntary systemi for economic waste. Still, they were procuring the recruits required at the ■rate of a thousand daily.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 18 April 1916, Page 5
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