A PLEDGE OF SECRECY.
COMPULSORY CLAUSES OF TUB DEFENCE ACT.
(By TcleEraph-l'rcEs Association,l Christohurch, February 20. To-night's "Evening New/' stated that in the courso of an address delivered in the Socialists' Hull lust evening, ComraiU ]■', j{, Cooke stilted that ho had been one of a deputation drawn, amongst others, from representatives of the New Zealand Federation of Labour and the Trades Council, and headed by Messrs. t'ayiio and Itobcrtson, Labour members of Parliament, which waited upon the Prune Minister 011 Thursday lust touching the compulsory clauses of the Defence Act. Sir Joseph Ward extracted u pledge of secrecy from those presents in particular Retting their assurance that nothing was to be divulged to tho press. The spokc.s. men of the deputation then laid their views before him. lie expressed sympathj. with tho views lield by the deputation, and particularly regretted that boys hud been sent to prison for noncompliance with tho Act. He said that ho wquld i:so his inllHenco to «?o that no furthor boys were sent to prison.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1374, 27 February 1912, Page 4
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170A PLEDGE OF SECRECY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1374, 27 February 1912, Page 4
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