PLAY THE GAME.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVIIII, Issue 447, 15 November 1916, Page 2

PLAY THE GAME.

Cr. Dash was the chief .speaker. Ho said: In bidding y,„i O.d'-sp-'d on behalf of 110 residents of this toealiiy, 1 would thank you for taking up.' arms in our defence—in the defence of the Empi'te wheo continued existence' is our only safe guard, in the brief moment that is inline'to speak f I h.'itve but oir. menage, but one advice, but me axiom; and that 's, "Play the game." _ 1 have no fears as t" your capacity; \var de\ dion. your courage. I know that y-m are sons of a race whc.se ivc :rds show* plainly that courage and devoii n to duty are. ini ivii. Men of 'ear race can die. ill iln,> mass, as, witness the dr-atiilens story : f the loss of the Birkenhead, when British ti'i-'ps stood ranked u [•■oil her sinking cl v -ck wlriL the inadequate boats i->iv. away the women and chUdren. M'eii of our race can-die alone in the silence;, as witness the. heart-wtirring record u" Cap-tain Oates, who, kivwing that the burden of his helplessness endangered the lives of his companions stepped out m'to the Antarctic blizzard to a, lonely death, that they might .have a chance. Will records like these, and they aie elose-writ-ien m the legacy our race has made Tor us, I have no fears for your courage. 1 need only remind you of these, and Lid you 'play the game.' Yo'.i may fun! a. little irksomeness. in the training, but that training. i,s io fit you to "p.!ay the game,'' and it you'will bear with the cheerfulness we bjro cur football training, in the temptations to liquor and licentiousness which- y-u may meet 10 member that you must .pursue your training to "[lay the ,g<tme." Other ii\e* depend on your fitness and your keenness to "play the, game." Y. u have hi righl' tu A & :us m >' our al> sence to "[day the game.'- Y -u have a right to expect us to so conduct ourselves that the, industrial life: of the Dominion shall continue to assist the nation. "We must "play the game;.' --wasting nothing o!. 1 liquor or gambling, conserving our ii n ances to helpin providing for the wo'Undod a n d! receiving the'"returned; conducting ourselves m that whether our next meeting he hero or yonder we may clasp, hands as 1 men who have 'played the game," Rev. J. A. Julius, M.A., complimented the men on coming forward as volunteers. Not thai, they should .say .anything about the men who entered' the Army um'o.- Conscription, for nobody knew everybody's difficulties. He doubted not that most of the men "before him would rather get away to canipi quietly and without any fuss, hut they must remember that now 1 tlh'at they hia,d been sworn in' they weiio public men As members of Parliament, for instance. Let them ponder this Wei that they were repiieseinta,tive men, and it would help! them. "When they got to the Old Country they would find the people ready to i63eiv e them with open arms, for that they were representatives of the New Zea,landcrs—the hast that lira Dominion could send. They must do their best to walk worthy of that high' honour and of the Home people's grciat expectations. I ' Amid the ringing! of the station-ball ho called for cuteeirs for the men, which were heartily given. As tib'o train moved off there was further cheering.