NO LAND FOR SHIRKERS
| DRASTIC PROPOSAL MADE. VIEWS OF FARMERS; By Telagraph.—Press m, „ . . Ellington, Last Nijhv. iite Dominion conference of the Parmers' Union was asked to-day to eun* port a remit from Southland ureimr that the Government be pressed to make it unlawful for convieted military shirkers to purchase or acquire any land or property whatsoever In' New Zealand. Tlis remit further proposed that any land or property purchased or acquired by shirkers since August 4, 1914, should-be disposed of to loyal \itizens. * « ■ The mover of the remit said that the farmers wanted to make it plain that they were Wyal. Men who had been too cowardly to fight should not be allowed to own anj land in the Dominion. (Hear, hoar.) , "If the country is worth fighting for it is worth keeping clean, and I don't think those animals—l won't call them men—who would not fight should be allowed to become landowners in thii Dominion," declared another delegate,The remit was adopted unanimously';
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1920, Page 4
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163NO LAND FOR SHIRKERS Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1920, Page 4
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