SHEARERS AND SERVICE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 7 June 1917, Page 6

SHEARERS AND SERVICE.

A notice published in the Australian "Worker (Sydney) warns Australian shearers not to come to New Zealand, says the Christchurch Sun, and states inaccurately that they will be liable here for military service. "Owing to the stringent- war regulations in New Zealand at the present time," runs the notice, "shearers are warned against proceeding to that country until after the war. Apart from rendering them- ■ selves liable to any future ballot for military service, shearers from Australia are virtually depriving their comrades in New Zealand of employment, as the pastoralists of that country prefer to employ Australian shearers in order that the. home shearers may be released for military service." The suti'fostion that. Australian shearers coi::: : :i' r to New Zealand for work would be liable to military senvice is entrc? ly inaccurate. The visiting shearer retains Ills Australian citizenship, and does not come within the scope of the Military Service Act at all. He is not ft member of the Expeditionary Force

Reserve. This fact has been made quite clear by the military authorities and by the Military Service Boards.