FARMERS OBJECT
HOME GUARD AND THE MINERS
EXEMPT FROM PROSECUTION
“That the fact that gold miners are exempted from prosecution for nonattendance at Home Guard parades be objected to,” was a remit moved by the Waihi branch of the Northern Thames Sub-Provincial Executive o£ the New Zealand Farmers’ Union a'’ the meeting held in Thames on Tuesday. Mr A. J. Campbell who moved the remit said that the exemption of gold miners from prosecution for non-at-tendance at Home Guard parades had left the Waihi Home Guard “up in the air” and local farmers had considered it not fair.
The remit was carried unanimously. Mr A. E. Robinson, Auckland secretary, stated that the coal miners had been exempted so as to produce more coal but in other countries gold mining had been suspended altogether. He could not understand the different attitude in New Zealand to gold mining.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3244, 26 March 1943, Page 5
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146FARMERS OBJECT Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3244, 26 March 1943, Page 5
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