FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15719, 21 September 1914, Page 9

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

N EW ZEALAND WARFARE.

gOLDTERS' POOR REMUNERATION.

(from the Herald of September 21, 1804.)

We deny thai the British soldier is being clcmoral <1 by New Zealand warfare, or that he is disgusted with the cause in which he s - l)is«u«ted ho is. but it is -with the pnrsinionioiis miserable amount c f pav ok-' 1 out to him by the British vgovernment the Mine rate of pay in the case «!iei"' his expenditure is doubled, as it would he were there no extra calls upon his Blend" - * means. He is disgusted, for, alongside hi« miscrnMe threepence a day, 5 11 that r- mains to him after paying for his rations, etc.. he sees the colonial solder, the W.uk.ito militiaman, receiving the full l' ll . v 01 half a crown a day free from all deductions. The British Government. starves its hard-worked servant- and then wonders that with such a comparison ever present before him ho feels less zealous in his duty than lie otherwise might be- At the same time the Imperial Government is not above the meanness of receiving fr< m the colonists £5 per head per annum, or 2s per week, each man, for o>ery soldier serving in New Zealand, which money it does not. give as extra pay to the soldier, but places it towards its'own general army expenditure. The soldier does not know this, and imagines that the colonial Government does nothing for him-