“NO MORE WAR”
MOVEMENT IN NAPIER. ABOLITION OF COMPULSORY TRAINING URGED. (Per United Press Association.) Napier, May 20. A meeting under the auspices of the No More War Movement held in Napier tonight to consider the abolition of compulsory military training, presided over by the Mayor, carried the following resolution by a large majority: That this meeting of citizens of Napier urges upon the Government (1) Speedy abolition of our compulsory system of military training as being inconsistent with the British principles of freedom, irritating in its working, ineffective as a means of defence and excessive in its cost; (2) The substitution of a volunteer defence system with special attention to aviation and with provision for compulsory physical training of our young people (both boys and girls) under the control of the Education Department or other civil authority and (3) That copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Prime Minister and Minister of Defence.
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Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 6
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155“NO MORE WAR” Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 6
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