THE REGISTRATION CARDS.
National Registration was to be a purely confidential return, not to be used as an enrolment scheme. It was so set out on the forms themselves. Notwithstanding this, members of the Ministry are already talking of openly using it towards that end- The Ministry that pledged itself is a coalition one. Were it either Wardite or Masseyite, pure and simple, that party would, in the future, be politically ruined. Being a coalition one, there remains the Cqnetantine course, to wreck the Constitution. Surely Mr. Massey, to whom we have grown to look for a "jquare" deal, and Sir Joseph Ward, on whom fell the mantle of the high priest of " God's Own Country," will not allow the fair fame of Zealandia to be so grossly outraged. The boys will come nght enough. But play the game fairly, dont get off-side. Shirkers among our boys are few— few; but if the Government persists in this ill-advised course, it will oat-shirk the worst of shirkers that lives. -_ J. B. Pbtnnk.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 4
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171THE REGISTRATION CARDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 4
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