BACKING UP DEFENCE ACT.
ON THE WEST COAST. (By Telecraph— Press Association.) Greymouth, April 16. At a Chamber of Commerco meeting last evening, tho president (Mr, Felix Campbell) moved: "That this chamber expresses their appreciation of tho action of tho Minister for Defence, in regard to the administration of the Defence Act, and that, if it bo desirable to eliminate the existing penal clauses from tho Act, then in lieu thereof the parent or puardian of any boy who refuses to take tho oath of allegiance or enrol be disfranchised from taking part in any election, and lose all right of citizenship in tho Dominion, and, further, that any boy refusing (against tho wish of 'his parents) to enrol shall, at tho ago of 21 vears, be disfranchised from all right of citizenship." The motion was carried unanimously, and a copy was ordered to be forwarded to the Minister for Defence.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1416, 17 April 1912, Page 6
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151BACKING UP DEFENCE ACT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1416, 17 April 1912, Page 6
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