MEW ZEALAND'S MAN POWER.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14825, 16 July 1918, Page 7

MEW ZEALAND'S MAN POWER.

[United Press Association.]

Wellington, July 15. j A public meeting was held in the| Town Hall to-night in celebration of| France's National Fete Da y. Sir James Allen attended, and in a speech referred .to-the1 published report of some remarks by the High Commissioner in London that, our man-power, was diminishing, and hinting at the possibility of Americans taking the place of New Zealanders. Sir James said we entered the campaign with the intention of seeing it through, and he believed tho people of New Zealand were determined to do so. He believed the men at the front wished to stay it out to the oik!, and intended playing their part to the end. So far as ho. was concerned he considered himself absolutely pledged to keep the New Zealand Division -up to strength as long as wo had the manpower to do it. He eulogised the part taken by the French people in the war, and a motion expressing appreciation of the sacrifices of the French was carried.