THE DEFENCE ACT.
<»» STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER. A reporter interviewed the Prime Minister (Hon. T. Mackenzie) in Wellington on Wednesday with reference to the Cabinet's decision to commute the sentences of imprisoned youths. "Neither the previous Cabinet nor the present Cabinet," he said, "believed that it was ever intended to put our lads into a common gaol and there to be clothed with gaol garments, and to have their finger prints taken like common criminals. The provisions of under the Act, namely depriving those refusing to register of the right to vote, and depriving them also of their right to enter the Civil Service, were thought to be sufficient. That, however, did not appear to have been enough in some cases, and Cabinet was considering the propriety of amending the Act in some form next session."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 454, 6 April 1912, Page 5
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136THE DEFENCE ACT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 454, 6 April 1912, Page 5
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