SOLDIERS' DEBTS
I ORDERS ON PAY NOT LEGAL'. From time to timo applications have been made to. the Defence Department to recognise orders on pay for debts of members of the Expeditionary Force. In making-it clear that the Department cannot accept such orders, District Orders state: "The Department has its. own work to do in training and equipping the men, and in paying allotments to relatives and dependents, but itcannot -undertake to add to its duties the collection of debts." ; Orders on soldiers' pay, it is stated, have 110 legal authority whatever. '■ It' is. pointed out also to'the mis-, guided'- soldier who thinks enlistment provides.'sufficient' excuse for his evading liabilities lie is in no ivay. exempt from the civil or criminal process of ..tlie ordinary Courts.' Creditors' can take proceedings in the ordinary course, and on a, judgment summons there is nothing to prevent his being arrested and imprisoned by order of a Magistrate. _ '
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2521, 23 July 1915, Page 7
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154SOLDIERS' DEBTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2521, 23 July 1915, Page 7
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