POLITICAL NOTES.
DISOffRANOHISINW SHIRKERSj (Own Correspondent) "' : . : „,, ± , .„ Wellington, Dec:;'e. When the Expeditionary Forces Bill came up for further consideration '■' in cotnm.ttec the .Labor members made,; an attempt to have inserted a proviso that 'military defaulters who had served Benefices of imprisonment should : be' ex-i empf ed from further, penalties -.by-WayJ of disfranchisement. vßutlte. Minister for .Drfuncf refused tfciweepti-tnJE-. He said that many men ■ti-ho 'had.-fonght "would never exercise the franahise.-againi' Thoy lay beneath foreign, soil.: ■}■■. He not at all sure that the defaulters : ought" not to bo disfranchised for life and. not merely for ten years. The House rejected tlio amendment on the voices.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1918, Page 7
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