THE NATIONAL REGISTER

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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

'st Herald. In th« fir-t 1 to-day s assume that it was the WS muSt Government that the register sfcould°L th f some practical benefit, ths Ttwifh^ and %^t^nS n^Vb Y; f^ j vs^s: , opportunity was given for supplying th« : Government with sufficient data to J? -J when a particular individual should h^r promise to serve, with a. », „' li con ld feet of koeS e ihS'p,om r i2 SO S'S! ' , ™' ?>«V ™ majority of the 34 SRfi m i the "So."" There cx.untr/ML h r"= d 4 « -. in the >f their duties to their dependants a to re «?i^'£« is a practical impossibility to enlist for active service or to undertake to fill a Government position. If £ Government 5 o^Tv"' control of the Kof in T\ etc., then the position would ustn ff' different. However on th. t q "' te cards supplied the only man who knew that his duties lav ft hL was to answer "No," however distasted this may have been. Surelv should not be dubbed " shirkers results as a whole. especially the retnm° of the single men . without dependaM* willing to serve are surelv most 15 ing. It would. h-wAer int»r?^ nrag " know how many of the 34,386 are with *♦ ties and eligible for enlistment. I One Who Favours Conscription [ December 8, 1915. lON -