ARMY CLASS DISTINCTION
ARMY OFFICERS AND MEN. LESSEN THE GAP. ATTACK BY MR WATTS. An attack on the perpetuation of class distinction between officers and men was mad,: by Mr P. H. Watts, Liberal Candidate for Waikato, before ; i crowded meeting a! the King's Theatre, Hamilton, last nigh!. He had, lie said, been a soldier himself, and though lie did not claim to have seen a great deal of war service in France, he hail vet sufficient to show him that the present sap between men holding commissions and those of the rank and file, was far 100 wide. \ voice: "What about the Tommies?" and another, "neve:' mind the war, it's over now." Mr Walls: 1 am not complaining that the New Zealand division was treated badly, or that it was not well fed under the circumstances, or that we hail to put up with the same hard,' conditions the Tommies had to: hut the great difference in the conditions of the men as compared with those of the officers and the wide class distinction should be done away with, or the country will not get the response when the next war comes upon us as : t did for the present war. ("Hear, hear," and applause).
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Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14232, 5 December 1919, Page 5
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