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Conscription in the Country.

CROWING DISCONTENT.

Dear Sir,—Will you kindly inform mc through the medium of your paper if any league or union has been formed for the purpose of ending the conscription evil? There is a feeling of strong discontentment gaining ground daily on account of children being fined in our different centres, no obligation being considered sacred enough to justify nonattendance at drill. A boy may pledge bis word to do a certain thing in a given time, and receive at a certain period of his work notice to attend drill or encampment 30 miles away, and if he is conscientious enough to stick to his promise he is dragged into court and lined and bullied. Is it not time, Sir, that those gentry were made to realise that instead of being masters they are merely public servants. Will you be kind enough to inform mc of the Federation of Labor's attitude towards militarism. The discontent is getting very keen in some parts of the North, and if rumor is to be relied on all over the country.—Yours, etc., Mareretu, Kaipara. A. MACRAE. [Our correspondent should get in touch with the National Peace Council of New Zealand, whose secretary is C. R. N. Mackio, Box 733, P. 0., Christchurch. The attitude of the Federation of Labor towards militarism is one of strong opposition.—Ed.}

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