FARMERS AND FIGHTING
PIE ST DIVISION EVADERS. . It the Otago Farmers', Union Conference tho president moved: —"That this conference view with alarm the number ' ot First JDfrision reserviaU who are evad--1 lng military service, more especially now in "view of the fact that the Second. Diviliou is being- called up; and it is the feeling of this conference that the pro--1 perty of such deserters should be confiscated, and the proceeds, pooled for the ■ benefit of returned soldiers." He said he understood there were some thousands , of these men in the country. He thought it was hard for younj, lails of nineteen and married men to have to go while j deserters were in the Dominion. Mr. Christie, in seconding the motion, j paid v there .were many hundred? of ablehodiecTnian doing. camp duties who should ! be on active service, and their camp work I done "by returned soldiers and men who | ; were not lit to leave tho country. ; The r»mit was carried.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 227, 13 June 1918, Page 8
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163FARMERS AND FIGHTING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 227, 13 June 1918, Page 8
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