MILITARY APPEAL.
NO “WIRE-PULLING.”
Dunedin, Dec. 10. !( Ims been suggested Hint (here
is n possibility of Ministers exorcising undue influence with military service boards on the behalf of reservisls desiring exemption from service. The Acting-Prime Minister, just before Ids return to AVeliinglon, gave a direct denial to the suggestion, lie said, “.Not a soul can secure a certificate of exemption otherwise than from the Military Service Board, livery man must appear before the Board personally or send sufficient evidence to justify the Board in coming to a finding. Doubts may arise through the operation of Regulation No. 1), which allows the Minister to send a certificate to the Board to sav that
a man belongs to an essent ia f industry. That power. 1 may (ell you, is used very sparingly, and whim it is used (he cerlilicale does not exempt a man. It is for (he Board to decode as to whether he is to be exempted. This question of essential industries is to be thrashed out with the boards at a conference.’’ Asked if it is necessary for a clergyman In apply for exemption, or will these applications be made by Hie heads of churches, Mr Allen replied I ha) the head of his church may send in notice of appeal, and appear for (he clergyman, but: he has an option, he may appear personally, or by his solicitor, or by his bishop.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1652, 19 December 1916, Page 3
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235MILITARY APPEAL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1652, 19 December 1916, Page 3
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