CONSCRIPTION
ACT’ TO JiK REPEALED Christchurch, Feb. 20. A definite assurance that the Labour Government was opposed to conscription in all forms was given by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, when a deputation from the National Peace Council waited on him this morning. The deputation asked that the compulsory clauses in the Defence Act be repealed, Mr Savage said there were a lot of Acts on the Statute Books for which the Government was not responsible, and which would not be there much longer. Compulsory military service was one of those. The Government was opposed to conscription in all forms.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12257, 22 February 1937, Page 3
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