SOLDIERS' LEAVE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16592, 15 January 1916, Page 6

SOLDIERS' LEAVE.

Sxu, —Ln a letter in your paper of tho 11th, a correspondent comments on the leave from Trelifcham to Otago boys lieing tho name ua that granted to other i.roops, pointing out that men in Wellington have the advantage, as they do not havo to travel. 1 think a more noticablc injustice is dono to memboro of the Main Body, who got no leave while training in New Zealand or Egypt, except tho customary Sunday afternoon and cortain evenings charing tho week, and (while training in Zeitoun) Saturday afternoon. A member of my section, while in Tahuna Park cainp in August, 1914, naked for leave to go home to Middlemarch to seo his mother, who was dying, but tho application was refused. I was invalided home, and arrived by tho Tahiti on December 25, and the majority of tho men aboard were reinforcements, many of them belonging to the Fifth, and one to tho Sixth- Is it fair that men of tho Main Body, who wore away for 15 months, should have the same lcavo (three weeks) as men of, say, tho Fifth, who were away for six months only, and had ample leave before they loft? I think it would be more just to grant leave according to the time tho troops were away—aay, 10 days' leave for every six months away from New Zealand. I am, etc.. Justice. Dunedin Hospital, January 12.