VOLUNTARY SYSTEM
STILL THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY.
DECLARATION BY PREMIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. May 6. “The issue of conscription has been mentioned tonight, and I do not want to treat it lightly,” said the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, speaking at the opening of the campaign of Mr P. Carr, official Labour Party candidate for the vacant Auckland West seat at Ponsonby tonight. •'I said on previous occasions , that, if our shores were invaded or if there was threat of invasion .every man and woman and every penny of money would be at the disposal of the State.” Mr Fraser said, amid applause. “The Labour Party and the Government have stood for the voluntary system, which, up to the present time, has been a great success.” he added.
A voice: “But it is not fair.” Mr Fraser: “The .Government adheres to the voluntary system.” The war effort of New Zealand was also discussed briefly by Mr Carr. He said he was 1 100 per cent behind the policy of the Government in regard to the war.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400507.2.24
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1940, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
175VOLUNTARY SYSTEM Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1940, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in