ANONYMOUS LETTER-WRITERS
WARNING BY MILITARY SER-
VICE BOARD
Christchurch, January 12,
At the Alilitary Service Board, the chairman (Mr Evans, S.M.) made the following pronouncement: —
“The hoard is constantly receiving Idlers, mostly anonymous, setting out ulleged facts which have not come out before the board in certain cases, or which have been deliberately suppressed or falsely stated. .In the first place, I wish to say that no person has a right, anonymously or otherwise, to address such communications to the hoard. On the contrary, it is contempt of court. If any person has knowledge of any such state of things, the proper person or authority to lay the matter before is either the military representative or the hoard, of the local group officers, whose duty it will be to inquire into the matter. The hoard is a judicial body, with a judicial function, the seriousness of which the board itself freely recognises, namely, that of deciding on evidence brought before it in open sessions who shall go to war and who may stay at home. Any person giving false evidence is guilty of perjury, and liable to the penalties of the law for that offence. The board therefore takes no notice of anonymous letters.
“In the second place, I wish to state that any persqn who knows of any facts wrongfully suppressed or falsely slated is under a duly to bring those facts to the knowledge of the proper authorities, not by anonymous letter, but in such a way (hat the authorities may properly ask the board to reopen the case, and any person who fails in this duty in this time of national crisis is as great a shirkin' as one who falsely states his position. I wish to make this fact quite clear. “in the third place,, I wish to say, on behalf of the board, that if any such facts as I have referred to are clearly proved before the board in a proper way, the board will leave no doubt in the mind of anyone, and particularly in that of the person falsely slating his position, as to what it will do. I wish also to make this fact quite clear.’ 1
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1661, 13 January 1917, Page 3
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366ANONYMOUS LETTER-WRITERS Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1661, 13 January 1917, Page 3
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