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IN ELECTION MEETINGS BY MEMBERS OF FORCES IN UNIFORM. GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Instructions have been issued to (he effect that all personnel, male and female, oi the Defence forces, including the Second N.Z.E.F. and the Home Guard, might attend election meetings in uniform, but that they must not take any active part m such meetings, nor act on the committee of any candidate while in uniform. This reply was given by the Minister of Supply (Mr Sullivan) on behalf of the Prime Minister, to an urgent question by Mr D. C. Kidd when the House met this morning. ' Mr Kidd asked if it were a fact that the Army had issued an instruction that soldiers must not serve on the election committees of Parliamentary candidates and if so would the Prime Minister see that such a position was not allowed to obtain. The Minister, in his reply, said the policcy outlined above was introduced prior to the recent by-election in Christchurch. It was at present under review and any variation would be announced prior to the general election.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1943, Page 4
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