RUBBING IT IN?
“HE CAVE £l." We take the following from the “Feilding Star’’ Wo often wonder if some people know the Empire is fighting to retain its right to exisA, and ilia b every day brave hoys are engaged in desperate conflict, shedding their limbs, their sight, and even their life’s blood in order that our womenfolks and little ones may be protected from outrage and torture iidinitely worse than death, that our properly may be left safely in our possession, and that we as a nation nitiy he permitted to develop onr institutions for the freedom of the world. There are eligible men in Feilding without family ties, who positively re fuse to enlist. There are also men of wealth who will giie little or nothing to make smooth the path of life for those lads who come back from the firing line maimed and /handicapped because of their willingness to bear the burden of the brunt of the battle. The man of means who will not give is quite a;; had as the shirker who will not fight. Some few weeks ago the Feild ing Patriotic Committee appointed can vassers to augment their funds for wounded soldiers. One of these from whom 'a donation was solicited is a real dent who is worth certainly not less than £30.011(1. He is well past the prime of life, has no family depending upon him, ami no one specially to whom to leave his money. After think ing over these facts, lie sent the Patriotic Committee a donation of £2. lb’ remembered the valuable property which he owns, the sums of woAey lie has invested in various ways, and his comfortable home which the soldiers are enabling him to spend the rest of his days in, so he sal down ami w rote out a cheque for £2. He rend in the paper the accounts of bloody battles where hundreds of onr brave lads Iflave fallen or been maimed for life, and out of gratitude to these hoys who are standing up so nobly for the cause of liberty, be forwarded to the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund the sum of two pounds. The Patriotic Committee were very gentlemanly about it. They gave him a month in which to think over it, suggesting that he must have made a. mistake. They wrote him a letter to that effect. Hut nary a mistake. He did not even reply to the letter. The Committee at its latest meeting decided to send the cheque hack. Haying they did not wish to damage their list with its record, and praying that if the donor wished to emphasise his liberty and loyalty, the committee would prefer that he choose some other channel.
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West Coast Times, 24 November 1915, Page 4
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455RUBBING IT IN? West Coast Times, 24 November 1915, Page 4
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