THE CALL TO THE YOUNG AND BRAVE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12537, 7 May 1915, Page 8

THE CALL TO THE YOUNG AND BRAVE.

PROVISION FOR,-DEPENDEM'S. j ; (Per Pnsaa AaiOoiAfi J£.) f \Ycllington, May 6. DiscUssing the question of recruiting I to-day, the Ron. Jas. Alien said: —"It t Were a .v6ung iiiall and -had not al- ' feadjf ri'oistiil'eu; anil 1 saW tiiO .list .of casualties circulated throughofit the city te-day, 1 should feci that the call had come tu mc in most urgent terms, and if I had not already done so I should .go straight enlist.;" . "1 do hot think,." siiiil Mr Aljen. "that the country has ready realised how tremendous is the job we have in hand, and how we have to Jose and how the lest places have to be filled up by those who arc here and lit- io ■ ' go, <siitd .Who have, ildt yet gone. I •feinuiot believe it possible tliat ii tftan who is tit to go decs Hot want to go. The list- of casualties.that- we have received ought to stimulate recruiting immensely. That is the experience everywhere else, and I have no doubt it- will be the filiiie jil Netf Kefiiand." As ttj the dependents of those limed and wounded. lie added that the Government could not do more until the legislation already oil the Statute Book was amended nest session. Dependents -of the men killed M ould be provided for. ■Up to th.e -present-the Government had i -.taken the tuui-sse of paying to the; de- j pendent a of a luau who had been. killed j tile pav he Had allocated to those he liacl ioft behind him. That pay would be continued for twenty-six weeks, or until a pension to dependents was fixed. He- thought that Was U fair thing. At a Meeting of tile executive of the : Wellington Military ' District the following resolution was unanimously passed:—'"ln tile opinion of this executive committee of the Wellington Military District, the approaching crisis m the war phase demands from all loyal men special patriotic efforts to do ( their duty in obtaining a- righteous Yiictory, and Still more strongly securing the freedom Of all -subjects of the Empire under the time-honored Union Jack. In order to 'support-actively and practically the Do- ' ferine Department at this juncture, it is suggested that the . National Reserve, throughout the Dominion offer to raise .- "at least 2000 soldiers under the badge 'of the Hcservc, each of the Military -Districts cf Auckland, Wellington, Cliristchurch, and Otago contributing its quota of 500 'from- its enrolled •strength, or by special enlistment of -others of the regulation age, 20 to 40, as National Reservists. The President is.hereby empowered and authorised to carry into effect this resolution.''