No Restoration of Defaulters" Rights

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 9

No Restoration of Defaulters" Rights

WAR-TIME RESTRICTIONS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL’S DECISION (THE SL'X'S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON. To-day The proposal to remove the wart me restrictions imposed on military defaulters, embodied in the War Disabilities Removal Bill, passed by the House of Representatives. has been excised by the Legislative Council. Defaulters are therefore still deprived of all civil rights. The Hon. A. B. Malcolm moved that the paragraph Lie struck out. The Hon. L. M. Isitt, who supported Air. Malcolm, said he thought the Council could not overlook the action of men who. in the time of the Empire’s stress, refused to fight. Sir Francis Bell expressed the hope that the Bill would be returned unamended to the House. Many conscientious objectors were imprisoned for reasons that he considered absolutely wrong, and not for anything contemptible or improper. The clause was rejected on a division by 24 votes to 9. The division list was as follows: FOR THE CLAUSE (9). Bell Rhodes Hall-Jones -Sinclair Hawke Thomson Michel Witty Mclntyre AGAINST THE CLAUSE (24). Allen MacGregor (''arrington .Mackenzie Clark AlaicQlm Cohen Mander Collins Aloore Craigie Reed TCarnsh aw Scott Fleming Smith Garland Snodgrass Hanan Stewart Isitt Stout Dang Triggs The Bill was passed as amended.