SUPPRESSING FACTS.
MILITARY BOARD'S CHAIRMAN SPMKS OUI. At the Christchureh Military Service Board on Friday, the chairman. Mr. Evans, made the following pronouncement: "The Board is constant!; receiving letters, mostly anonymous setting out alleged facts which have f.ot come out hefore tiie Board in certain case, in Christchureh which have bee., celibcr•itclj suppressed or.falsely stated, in the first place I wish to cay that no person has the right, anonymously or otherwise, to address a.i; such communication to the Board. If any person has knowledge of an) such, state of things, the proper person or authority to lay the matter before is either ine military representative of the Board or the loeal group officers, whose it will be to inquire into die mattei' The Board is a judicial body with j judicial function, the serionsneSF :>f whien the Board itself freely recognise:., namely Jiat of deciding on evidence Crougnt before it in open sessionu, who shall eo to the wai and who maj stay a'i huir.L. Any person giving false evidence is guilty of perjury and is liable to the penalties of the lat for this ofier.ct. The Board therefore takes nt notice of anonymous letters. In the second place I wisr. to state that any person w.ho knows of any facts wrongfully or falsely statec is under duty to those facta to the knowledge of the proper authorities; not by anonymous letter, tut in Oieh n way that the authorities may properly ask the Board to re-open the cr.se; and any person who fail; in this duty in this time of national crises it as great a shirker as one who falsely states his position. I wish to make this fact quite clear. In the third place I wish to say on behalf of the Board that if any such facts as I have referred tc are clcaTly pioved before the ,Board in the proper way, the Board will leave no doubt in the mind of anyone and particularly in that o« person: falsely stating their position as to what it will do. i wish also to make this fact quite clear,"
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1917, Page 8
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353SUPPRESSING FACTS. Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1917, Page 8
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