APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS
To The Editor Sir, —And so Mr Savage, who before his last trip to England, spoke of the Compulsory Military Training Act as a disgrace to New Zealand, is beginning to change his tune. He appeals for volunteers. Does' he appeal for volunteers to pay his heavy taxes? Oh no, compulsion is quite right in the case of money, quite wrong in the case of blood. So we are to continue to lose our best citizens and become a nation of shirkers. All the brave and honourable are to die, one by one, until New Zealand is left with a population of
skirkers and pacifists. Then the very sheep will turn on us and drive us into the sea. Down with all shirkers and pacifists before it is too late.—Yours, etc., J. P. DAKIN. May 24, 1939.
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Southland Times, Issue 23828, 27 May 1939, Page 12
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140APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS Southland Times, Issue 23828, 27 May 1939, Page 12
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