HECKLED BY QUAKERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1681, 22 February 1913, Page 5

HECKLED BY QUAKERS.

I ABOUT MILITARY; TRAINING. A CLERGYMAN'S SPIRITED RETOItT, (By Telegraph.— Spcdil Correspondent) Auckland, February 21. Tho question of the Dominion military training scheme was responsible, for a lively interlude nt a,meeting of the Society of J' rientls held yesterday afternoon at the Meeting Hojise, Mount Eden. Among several persons invited to attend was *he W. Heady, was taken io i§»)i for some remarks ho wade at the recent Methodist Conference in Wellington. The society .regretted that tho conference hod voted in favour of compulsory training. • Mr. Heady explained that tho confer, enco had voted unanimously in expressing its desiro for peace and protesting against war, but ri majority of tlio had approved of compulsory training. In answer to ono of tho Fxientls, who ' said an .Auckland neivspnper had report* od Mr. Heady as upholding ; eompylfory training, Mr. Heady • explained fully tho stand lie took up on this touch-debat-ed question when the point was under discussion nt the conference, 110 (-aid there was a time wlien ho held the 6pin- . ion that camps wero very iminoral, and not places to which youths should • bo sent, but since ho had had his .sons attending camp as Territorials lie had bceii • converted into believing that these camps , wero moral and well regulated. Ho told i the conference that every iiistilict of hit moral na{uro went against compulsory training; but he had his sons in the Territorials. , At this announcement there were cries of "Shame," . ■ Mr. Heady stuck to his guns, and went on .to explain that merely to gain liia point in objecting to tlio principle of >. compulsory training he, was not going to advise his boys to break'the law. , JJo , pointed out to tho Friends that.it Would bo a very dull world if everybody thbught.' alike. Ho declined to liave his opinions , made for him. ,H« would no more,advocate his sons breaking the law than ho ; would support the Suffragettes' in their tactics at Home; The training ' pehenlo \ was now part of the luw fif the toiid, and'l lie did not believe in breaking the law or in advocating his sens to <I<i.so.V ■