ADDRESS BY MAJOR ROBIN. Major Robin said he recognised that some members of the New Zealand Contingent had left the colouy for the purpose of remain ing in South Africa, and settling down into some business occupation. To those he drew attention to the conditions of enlist ment in the police force, but for those who merely wished to join to secure a change, who had grown dissatisfied because they had been allotted a bad camp and ranked as mounted infantry he had no sympathy what ever. Every man had had to undergo the same privations—officers as well as men had been compelled to put up with hardships, and a good deal of humbugging in addition. But he thought, their first duty was to New Zea land, to the colony who had sent them out to fight. What*had they been equipped at .no small cost and sent out here for? To become policemen, even if the work were more dangerous and. the discipline stricter? No, they were sent out as a New Zealand Contingent, and that they should: remain as long as they could. His remarks were not addressed to those members of the con tincront. who'had left the colony with the idea of settling down in the Orange Free State or the Transvaal. He was speaking to those members of the contingent who might have applied for enrolment as Mount ed Police merely ,for change, or because they had been somewhat dissatisfied with tTTe conditions tinder which they had been placed. They would soon be on the maixjh again, an advance might be made any day, and then all would be well.
