MILITARY SERVICE.
MAKING RESERVISTS' POSITION CLEAR. By Telegraph.—Press* Association. <',%• Auckland, Last 'lfight. The Farmers' Union Conference mul a resolution that any essential mndcet' liable to be called up during tbi next' ' twelve months should have the right to go before a military board and bm !hl» position made clear. The conference-lire* viously rejected a remit that befSn tin ' second division is called up tiw fiat' division be incVeaeed by the lwlujioo \ of men up to 60 years of age, asd ala{ * tejected a remit that the whole Awt. and second divisioif ballots be,drawn it'", once, so that fanners would know tW exact dato when they would have to gi' n into camp some months ahefd, likewiM ,• that the position of farmer* be defined ■ so as to know whether they\wfll be m ' quired for service, or it they'can xtafeil on their farms. IRiAILWAY APIPEAIB.
TJtB DEPARTMENT'S SHOT.' Wellington, last Nigfcl Regarding the protests of braodU* M- . f i tie Amalgamated Society of Stilwai »' Servants as to conduct of the ballot to tfio department, the president of «»'-* Society (Mr. R, Hampton) ftWta# thj'i noßition is misunderstood. Ttie ' was not secret and he could vooojiifor its fairness. The facts a« he tttfier-' »tood them were tliat the dttwrttifcit • found, as a result of the curUilnejiof' the services, a certain number of mm > could be spared from those alrfctdy '■ drawn in the ballot. Not tripling to '' make discrimination, the department d&> jCidcd to ballot for the number required, ' The ballot woe carried out by tin ailM> : ' ant general manager, in the presenoe of < himself (Mr.'Hampton)i, repreaentiM thfe ' Society, E. W. Henderson, prtaMflcfc of I the Engine-'Drivers, Firemen, tad Csian«' ers' Association, and Young, • • dent of the Railway Officers' Institute. „ Every opportunity was afforded fWi ■ of- seeing the "ballot carried out, ' Per-. :, sfionally, he was satisfied it) was qtlfij' I'. 1 '. fair to all concerned. All the mm ij»- f" eluded in the ballot had been yreviouflj' drawn in , the military ballots and litfd"' back by appeal of the Railway Department. It should) be understood that tie '' department did not select the tnen. The .J Military Service Board simply With&WW Ui the appeals in the categof th&'laeA -Ns drawn in the departmental UUoi. It .1 was only fair to the department to state ; these facts.
PROTEST AGAINST DBPABfMEKTAB BALLOT, /•' Woodvllle, May 41. At a meeting of tho local bffincji of the Engine Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners" Association a resolution wag carried protesting against the ballot system car* ried out by the department rtfer* enco to railway men called for military service. The meeting considered tbat the ballot was unnecessary, and tßaflif the department could release 160 men it should take those called up in yie ■ first instance under the Military Seft ' vice Act, '
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1917, Page 5
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