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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14048, 19 July 1916, Page 6

"There is another side to the plea for. .exempting young professional men who are liable to a heavy war tax on a growing '■ business," declared Mr Isitt m the House. He stated that he was at a recruiting ineet\rtg m Oaniaru, wh: n a -ic-si-dent expi'essed indignation to him over what happened there. A number of ' young- ipen had completed their legal studies when tho war broke put.' Direct-* ly the call came severa.l of ' fchemi threw every consideration to the winds, sacrificing everything to serve their country.' But two or three of the young fellows who studied with them did not volunteer. They took offices, "put up the shingle." arid would secure business all the more rapidly .' because they no longer had to compete against the young men who had gone to the fight.