SOLDIERS’ BUSINESSES.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 September 1918, Page 6

SOLDIERS’ BUSINESSES.

OBJECT OF THE REGULATIONS. WELLINGTON, Sept. 2. The regulations recently gazetted in •regard to the protection of soldiers’ businesses ere the subject of a fewexplanatory remarks by Sir James Allen, The Government, he said, had adopted the principle that business men who were engaged in the same businesses and industries as soldiers, and were left undisturbed, and would in effect benefit by the calling up of Iheir competitors, must share the burden of the disability which military service inflicted upon their soldier fel-low-traders. The new regulations had been issued tentatively, with a vie v/ to seeing how far they would servo | to minin'he hardships suffered by business reservists* Any soldier* is eawp, Or drawn in the ballot, whose business Vas likely to be affected by Ms be-, ing called Up, should, without delay, Said Sir James, approach either himself or the district commissioner, setting out full particulars of Ms so that it might be investigated,,