CLERGY AND CONSCRIPTION.
DEFENCE MINISTER’S ASSURANCE.
Auckland, March 5
Sir James Allen says as far as the Defence Department is concerned there is no desire to compel clergymen who are averse to combatant duties to go into the firing line. In the cases of the two Roman Catholic students who.recently were drawn in the ballot and whose appeals were dismissed, the Military Service Board recommended that t.iey be given non-combatant work. That recommendation will be respected, and the same course will lie followed in all cases in whieh clergymen who are called up prefer non-combatant to combatant work. Already in the non-combatant section at the Awapuni camp there are three clergymen, an Anglican, a Presbyterian, and a Methodist.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1682, 6 March 1917, Page 3
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118CLERGY AND CONSCRIPTION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1682, 6 March 1917, Page 3
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