MILITARY SHIRKERS.
j AUCKLAND SOLDIERS' ATTITUDE. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Minister for Defence, writing to Mr. P. Fraser, M.P., regarding the statement that returned soldiers signed a petition for the release of men imprisoned for refusing to perform military service, says he communicated with the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association, the secretary of which replied that, while a few men may have signed the petition, a resolution was passed last November strongly deprecating the remission of sentences imposed on men for refusal to perform military service during the war, nnd that every endeavour should be made to bring to trial men who failed to parade when called up, or who subsequently deserted. The letter further stated that at a meeting of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association on February 5, a motion "that the balance of Mr. P. t'. Webb's sentence be remitted," failed to get a seconder from over 400 men present, who expressed disapproval of the proposal in a marked manner.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 52, 1 March 1919, Page 6
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