MILITARY OBJECTORS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20914, 14 October 1942, Page 2

MILITARY OBJECTORS

UNIVERSITY'EMPLOYEES By nine votes to eight, the Canterbury University College Council at Christchurch''rejected -k motion' for trie rescission of a’ recent resolution that ’‘ any * person employed' by- the council who refuses military service oil the grounds of conscientious objection be' -gT'anted ’ idavb 'of ''abße'hee Without pay ; for the duration of the war. Mrs. C. L. Young, moving the rescission of the resolution,‘said a resolution ;*more worthy of 'a university council 'embodying all views' was required. Archbishop' West-Watson seconded, the motion pro forma. - ; 'Mr. H. D. A eland said JL.Hat with defeat the nation faced* extermina--tibh. There'* l was no place-'in’ the country for parasites. 1 Mr.' J. Hi *E: Schroder said the resolution was’ superfluous, as objectors with dismissed’ appeals Were dealt with”''as defaulters: Those whose appeals were* allowed 'were directed to work by a special tribunal. The council had rio power’ either' \</ay, ■Professor A. Hi : T6cker said 'the right people must be entrusted with teaching in the highest realm'of education. ’Mr. C. T. Aschman said the Government had' regulations* governing objecting schoolteachers and the same should apply to universities. - - : “-. ■The chairman, Mr. A. E. flower, said the council held a position' 'Of trust and must stand firm by its convictions. It should not surrender .the right to administer its own affairs find should decide its owmproblems.