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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11957, 16 March 1917, Page 4

loft to chance, and they were given an assurance that the whole matter would bo put right. But, as in many other cases, the Departmental promise has prov'xi worthless, and! instead of taking; proper steps to have the past wrong righted thoy have callously allowed the wrong to he -aggravated by the publication in the deserters' list oi: the name of a man who is '"doing his hit " in the trenches. Blunders, 'to call them by no more severe name, such as the above are calculated to bring the whole .administration of the (>overn« ment into disrepute, and we .hope- no time will bo lost in. romov-iug the stigma now attached to the name ot an innocent and patriotic man. 1 -bat a man fighting in France should be deemed a deserter in New Zealand, and Gazetted as such, is quit® Gilbertian, and it behoves those in power to see that the gallant .soldier s name is cleared of the stain which has, through official incompetence, been attached to it.