EXEMPTION OF CLERGY.
BRITISH PRACTICE ADOPTED. MARIST BROTHERS ALSO EXEMPTED The Minister for Defence (tlie Hen. Sir James Allen) made the following statement on Saturday with reference to the exemption of the clergy from military service-.—"ln England the clergy are exempted by Act from tha provisions of the Military Service Act! They come up for service as chaplains. Here they are not exempt by law, but the Military Service Boards have, I think quite rightly, agreed to follow out the evident policy of Parliament, which wars to exempt them from the provisions of the Military Service Act. That puts us in line with Great Britain. Ir. regard to the religious orders, the Military Service Boards are also, so far as I understand, following the practice in Great Britain, and the appeals are heard, and, unless there is some good reason to the contrary, they are adjourned sine die. Should the practice in Great Britain alter, then the matter will be reconsidered." When dealing recently with appeals on behalf of clergymen and students of several churches, Mr F. J. Burgess, S.M. {chairman of the First Auckland Military Service Board) announced that as the result of a conference the Military Service Boards had agreed to adopt a uniform policy regarding the apppeals of clergymen, and in acccordance with the practice in Great Britain all clergymen proved to belong to reognised and established denominations were to be exempted The additional statement was published that "the conference, it is understood, did not definitely decide how the appeals of theological students would be treated other than as usual." "The board's attitude," stated the chairman of the board, "to clergy or ministers also applied to Marist Brothers, whose appeals would be adjourned, on the understanding that the appeals may be reviewed at any future date if the iVar Office intimated any change in the Imperial practice regarding the exemption of men of religious orders.'
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1918, Page 6
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318EXEMPTION OF CLERGY. Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1918, Page 6
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