LAST MAN ON A FARM
RESULTS OF THE RULE. During last session sonie of the farm- , ing ' members, of the House wrested from the Government an unwilling concession to ensure that in no case should the last man be taken off any ' farm. No legislation was passed, but 1 the Government made a promise that ' an instruction would be sent to mili- . tary service boards to state that it was .. the desire of the Government that .the last man should not be taken from a farm and sent into camp.
••Already the rule is leading.to fantastic results. Under some at least of tho military service boards men are said to be escaping who aro nothing more nor less than shirkers. Since the rule was made the authorities have met with the case of a rich man who has quite lately purchased a dairy farm and put his son upon it. Already there are two other sons of the same family in the same position, and tho last to go on a farm single-handed..had asked for exemption on the ground that he is the last man on a farm: Under the rule as defined by the Government instruction ho should bo given exemption. but it is likely that an exception will be made in this and similar cases.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 50, 22 November 1917, Page 8
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217LAST MAN ON A FARM Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 50, 22 November 1917, Page 8
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