MILITARY SERVICE.
POSITION OF SINGLE MEN. ENGINEERING EMPLOYEES. (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. “Is it your opinion that a Grade 1 man who is single should not be sent to the war if he is making ploughs, although a married man with three children may have to go in his place?” This was the question pu(f to the Munitions Liaison Officer (Mr Barrett) by the Crown tive (Mr W. F. Tracy) when appeals for 12 employees of W. H. Price and Company were heard by the Armed Forces Appeal Court to-day. “That is the attitude of my department,” replied Mr Barrett. He said he had been instructed to urge retention of all types of engineers, regardless of whether they were married or' single.
“I do not follow this,” said Mr Tracy. He said there had been men from the top of the political world to the bottom saying that single men were to go.
“Has this been made public?” asked Mr Tracy. “I do not think so, why should it?” answered Mr Barrett.
“Because the public should know that, although, it is drummed in every month by politicians, single men must go. There is at least one Department that is not prepared to accept that principle,” said Mr Tracy.
The decisions in all cases were reserved.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 34, 19 November 1943, Page 4
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