THE CASE OF P. C. WEBB.
MINERS' UNCOMPROMISING ; -; f ::, ATTITUDE. Wellington, Fer 19. The demand of the West Coast miners for the exemption of Mr. /Vebb, M-P., from military service, is couched in uncompromising terms, with a threat of industrial revolt to back it up. But the Government will not interfere with the decision of the military service board that heard Mr. Webb's appeal. Mr. Massey and his colleagues are firm on that point and the next move is with the miners- Mr. Webb is an unmarried man and be stands in exactly the same position as any other Pint Division reservist. The member for Grey, explaining his own position, states that he is not refusing to serve. He has simply placed himself in the hands of his constituents. He resigned his_ seat, he says, in order to give them an opportunity to select another member to represent them in Parliament. They re-elected him unopposed, and they consider that he will be more useful to them in New Zealand than at the front.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1918, Page 2
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173THE CASE OF P. C. WEBB. Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1918, Page 2
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