SHIRKERS, MILITARY AND OTHERWISE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2156, 29 July 1920, Page 2

SHIRKERS, MILITARY AND OTHERWISE.

THE following strongly- worded resolution was passed at the Dominion Farmers’ Union Conference at Wellington .on Tuesday: —“That (he Government he pressed to pass legislation making it unlawful for convicted military shirkers to purchase or acquire any land or property whatsoever in New Zealand, and that any land or property so purchased or acquired by them, since the outbreak of hostilities on 4th August, 1914, lie nullified and disposed of to loyal citizens.” It goes without saying that the man who will not tight for his country in a righteous cause, and in a lime of crisis, is not morthy of consideration as a citizen of the Empire. But there are oilier shirkers besides military shirkers, who deserve equal condemnation. We refer to the financial shirker, and blatant patriotic swanker who has accumulated vast war profits, and hy deviou.-i machinations of income returns and other acts of financial cunning, is not one whit better than the military shirker. The Farmers,’ Union should also urge the Government to likewise twist the tail of these “gentry.”