RECRUITING AND SPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16097, 10 December 1915, Page 4

RECRUITING AND SPORT.

Sif, Yesterday I was visiting on® of our seriously wounded soldiers in Cairo Hospital. The poor man is paralysed from the hips downwards, and it is doubtI ful whether be will ever regain the complete use of his limbs. I gave him the Aucklaxt) Weekly News, in which there is a photograph of the splendid welcome accorded by the Aucklandere to the reI anH m W T ded 80ldlers - He - pain and difficulty, raised - UP .one wasted arm and said Loot, sir, see that crowd, nearly all of them men, many of them young chaps too, they shouldn't be theS —a lot of them should be over there " STallfrJi 0 t H NO , rth ' ™ the direction of Gallipoli. He only voiced the general sentiment of the men out here ester pXITTS' hen vi , sitin 8- "° a " hosj\ , '. wljo made no secret of his ardent love for racing, said "It links me how crowds of men at such a time this should spend their time at sport, IhnnM downright shame that more monev should be put through the totalisator at now th^a^^^VJS PlaC€S) immediately said, That's true BM £ should stop the whole bag of tricks S this job is over." Do the young New Zealand realise that this is a death struggle? The soldiers do* ery hand surprise is manifested that bjto Sat " sto '* ld « • Zeitoun, E OT t G te £°^ > IS C - F