FINDING THOSE WHO EVADE SERVICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1686, 15 March 1917, Page 3

FINDING THOSE WHO EVADE SERVICE.

BUSINESS OF EVERYBODY. “ J us-1 a few words about the men who have been drawn in the ballot and whom we have not been aide to lind,” said Hie Acting-Brime Minister (Sir James Allen) lo a press represent alive at Wellington. “There’s a fair number of them, and it may he that there is some satisfactory explanation of onr not being able lo liml them. We want that explanation. whether we get it from the man hiniself or from his friends, or I rom Ihe police, or from Hie public. These lists are. being posted up at all the post offices. We want them |o he as public as possible, and we invite the newspapers lo make them as public as possible, because we are on Hie search for every man. “Then* is, however, another class of men who are trying deliberately to evade sendee. We call upon the public throughout New Zealand lo assist us in limling these men. The Defence Department and tin* police and Rost Office are doing what they can, but we consider it lo he the duty of every citizen in New Zealand to help us, “if they know a man who is evading service (hey should inform ns. I want to point out why they should do so. If a man is Irving to shirk he is probably putting into the ballot some man whose claims for exemption are greater than bis own, and who, but for the shirker, would not have euiue into the ballot. It will thus he seen that it is (o the interest of all, whether they belong to the Ist or 2nd Division, to assist (he authorities in this most important respect,”