WAR REGULATIONS
QUESTION OP REPEAL. ' A request for the repeal of the Wav Regulations was made by a Labour deputation which'waited on Ministers yesterday. Tho speaker on the subject was Mr. W. Perry, wso said that even tho good points in the regulations ought to lie provided for in statute law. lie objected to any other form of legislation as being undemocratic. Sir James Allen said that the question hail been considered by Cabinet more than once, and' the last decision of. Cabinet had been that it would not deal Villi tho War Regulations until peace had been signed. Peace had now been signed, and the, matter would cofte' Oh for consideration again. War Regulations were still essential, and ho was sure that no member of tho deputation would ask for the repeal oJ these. Sir. Francis Bell had been on tin West Coast, and they hpd been nwaitinj liis return before dealing with tliii question on which they wanted liv advice.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 245, 10 July 1919, Page 5
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162WAR REGULATIONS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 245, 10 July 1919, Page 5
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