IN EVENT OF WAR
LEVY ON WEALTH AS WELL AS CONSCRIPTION. STATEMENT BY MR SAVAGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The remarks he made concerning conscription when replying to the deputation from the Defence League on Thursday were amplified yesterday by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage. He said that the obvious inference from what he had said was that when conscription started it would not begin or end with flesh and blood. It was a fair thing that when men fought to defend their country the wealth of that country should be levied upon to keep them and their families from starvation and distress. During the last war a debt of roughly £80,000,000 had been accumulated, and while men were dying others were being enriched. He had said quite definitely to the deputation that that was not going to happen again while the present Government was in power. The righting men would have whatever was necessary to keep them and their wives and families while they were doing the nation’s job, and they would not be called upon to pay a debt that had accumulated in their absence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1938, Page 6
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193IN EVENT OF WAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1938, Page 6
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