THE WAR AND EXEMPTION FROM SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 200, 13 May 1918, Page 7

THE WAR AND EXEMPTION FROM SERVICE

Sir,—The stand taken by the .Wellingtou City Council is one that is to bo highly approved by all right-thinking Britishers. Wβ as a British nation arc out,to win, and win wo will. To carry this ortt every Dian that has any sense of feeling for the sufferers by the awful deeds perpetrated by the enemy should not in (ho lenst degree attempt (o shirk his responsibilities in any shapo or form. To exempt men in offices in any particular line cannot be classed as essential work to assist fo win the war. There aro no doubt many older men quite as capable to carry on tho work in offices until after the win , '- The lead given by the Wollingtou City Council that they.do not intend to appeal for their employees in tlio office will appeal to-all. right-thinking pcoplo as the correct thing to do, and one no doubt that will be followed by the Primo Minister of tho Dominion. The men who should receive consideration in tho matter of exemption, tiro farmers and mechanical engineers 'employed in foundrios. Tho work of these two is in all respects essential. Without production from the land we would be in a bud way, and it is necessary to manufacture iron and steel for wivr purposes. To say a man in nnv particular line of business cannot bo done without is nonsense. If he. dies what happens? Why, plenty to ti<k3 his place. If it was not so, the end of the world would soon eventuate:— I am, etc., BRITISHER,