DISCHARGED WATKATO MILITIA MEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 170, 30 May 1864, Page 4

DISCHARGED WATKATO MILITIA MEN.

To the Editor of the Nr.w Zr.Ai.Axn Hi:haul Sin, JTnvim* been recently discharged from the AVaiknlo Militia on account of my bi>in K medically unfit for further service. I beg leave to eiii|uiro on behalf of myself mid other discharged i::ilifiaincn, whether we are entitled to the lifty acre iillotmcnt or not. , Now sir, is it fair to discharge a. man without any recompense. It is not the man's fault that his constitution broke down while on active service. I think the least tho Government might; do, would be to give the laud to the discharged provided the discharged stop the three years in the colony. Purely it would not, be too large a compensation for the loss of henlth and employment. Sir, as the Genci-id is discharging a great number of men just now, (1 think there are over fifty in Auckland pending discharge) you would bo cunfering 11 great favour on nil by inserting the above f«w lines, and hoping you will use your pen to see justice done to ns. Ax Tt.Tj-i'skd Waikato Max. [It never, we should iiiuiginc, could be the intention of the authorities to disqualify any man from receiving his liinii. whose health breaking down by the hardships undergone in the performance of his duty rendered it necessary to discharge him from active service. If passed into the service ns healthy after a duly appointed medical inspection, it could not be looked upon as other than n stignm on the liberality of the colony, if men whose health break down in' its service should be i-nst adrift unprovided for upon the world.—Ki.. X. Z.-H7]