OBJECTORS AND DEFAULTERS
4 — NO PROSECUTIONS AFTER ARMISTICE ANNIVERSARY MR. MASSEY'S ANNOUNCEMENT "Cabinet has decided that there shall be no more prosecutions of conscientious objectors or defaulters," said the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives last night. "I don't know that we have any conscientious objeotors in prison now. I think there nve a few defaulters in prison This derision will operate from the anniversary 0 f Armistice Day, i a little less ,thnn a month from now. "I want to make it perfectly clear that what is intended by Cabinet will not affect defaulters who have not dono their duty during the war period, and conse- • quontly have been deprived for a. period of civil and politico! rights. The decision will not intorfere with them in the slightest." Mr. .Witty (Riccarton): Does it mean that, those shirkors who have not yet been caught will not be bothered about? Mr. Massey: Yes. We understand a liuiribor of men are still in hiding, I don't know where.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19201020.2.36
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 21, 20 October 1920, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
167OBJECTORS AND DEFAULTERS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 21, 20 October 1920, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in