SHIRKERS AT LARGE.
. WELLINGTON, Nov. 27. ■ The treatment of- conscientious obi jectors was considered at a meeting of , the Dominion Executive of the New | Zealand -Returned Soldiers 5 Association j to-day. It was slated that there are : 2000 shirkers still at large in the Dominion. | The president said the Prime Minis-» ■ ter’s recent announcement meant that 1 the 2000 remaining objectors would be 1 deprived of their civil rights. Mr. T. Y. Seddon, M.P., said therewould bo civil.prosecutions. Mr. N. E. Leadley (Christchurch):. { “That means nothing, 55 He moved: ■ “That the executive of the Association should concentrate on seeing that ('the men who had shirked should not ( have their civil rights restored. 5 5 The president: “That is the dangerWe do not want to see these men back in any political power. 55
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3640, 29 November 1920, Page 4
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