HOW GOVERNMENT TREAT THE MILITIA.
To the Editor of the Herald. Sib.,-—What a gloriously liberal Government we live under, which can compel men to leave their own occupations at almost a moment's notice, and travel some fifty or more miles away fcom their families, crossing rivers innumerable times, sleeping out during those nights of hard frost, with no regular commissariat, and with every likelihood of laying the foundation of future sickness ; and then almost before they have had time to clean themselves—their horses and accoutrements— they are politely informed in orders that they are struck off pay and released for the present, and, as is the case very often, have then to pay thair own doctors' bills for injuries done themselves during the periods they are out on- service, besides ruination to a suit of clothes and pair of boots, and for this they are literally paid (some considerable time after the money is earned) at the rate of four shillings per diem.—Yours, &0., Mtt.ttIAMAK. May 16, 1868,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1417, 2 June 1868, Page 5
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