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CONSCRIPTION ISSUE GOVERNMENT’S POLICY OUTLOOK UNCERTAIN MR. COLEMAN’S VIEWS “So far as I am aware, there has been no question of conscription raised within the Government,” said the member for Gisborne, Mr. D. W. Coleman, when asked to-day to comment upon the issue which during the past few days has come much into prominence as a result of the fallingoff in voluntary recruiting for the special New Zealand forces.
“I can only say what the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon) M. J. Savage, told members of the Government in caucus, repeating the pledge he had given to the electors from the public platform. He stated in effect that the nation being committed to war, it was impossible to say what obligations might have to be faced. With regard to conscription, he re-affirmed his pledge that if it came, it would not start with the conscription of human beings.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20129, 26 December 1939, Page 7
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151NOT MEN FIRST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20129, 26 December 1939, Page 7
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