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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5348, 3 February 1916, Page 2

‘‘ln my district we have already had an example of moral suasion in actual operation,” said one of the Auckland suburban Mayors during a reference to the recruiting question. ‘‘ln the local tennis club there area number of young men of an age and physical condition that might in the opinion of many of the residents, have led to their enlistment long ago. Their neglect to enrol has been resented by a number of young ladies, who, in former years, were members of the club. This year the girls have conspicuously refrained from joining the club, and made no secret of the fact they decline to associate with young men who do not recognise their responsibilities to the nation that has bred them and now protects them. II this sort of tiling could be mode general—if, in fact, shirkers could everywhere be ‘sent to Coventry,’ and eold-sliouldered in every athletic club and) social assem-bly-—it seems to nip that they must very soon be driven to feel the force of public opinion, and realise the meanness of relying for their own protection upon' the more patriotic New Zealanders now in the tronebes.”