MILITARY SERVICE OBLIGATIONS
report of the discussion by the Oamaru Returned Services’ Association on the subject of men for the armed forces. Young single and able-bodied- men are getting away with their appeals, while married men have to leave their wives and young children and go and fight for these shirkers. It is only necessary in Oamaru to visit any dance hall for evidence of this. Let women or returned men do the work for which these men are retained, and do away with appeals. This is a time when every fit man should go. I know of a young man in this town who has five young children, with another expected shortly, yet he has been told to be prepared to go overseas. Is it right that he should go while there arc so many single men in the country?—l am. etc., Disgusted. Oamaru, December 11.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25101, 17 December 1942, Page 6
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