MILITARY OBJECTORS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19772, 9 November 1929, Page 18

MILITARY OBJECTORS.

ALTERNATIVE SERVICE. "I think the Hon. Mr Wilford is just having a joke." said Brigadier F. W. Burton, Divisional Commander of the Sanation Array in Canterbury and Westland when a*kcd by a Press reporter to give his opinion concerning iTiu statement made in the House of Re preventatives to the effect that the opportunity of alternative service would be given territorials to work w.th the Salvation Army. "From our standpoint there's nothing .n it, I am sure," said Brigadier Burton. "There is nothing in our organisation to meet the needs of the case. If anything out of the way in a chanse of policy au< h as this were proposed. I should certainly have been advised, but I have had no official word. It is too ridiculous to think of." , '■lt eeems to n.e to t*» n kind 0 f compromise. ' said Mr C. R. X. Mackie honorary secret arv of the National Pe.ice Council, interviewed "Tt is moM absurd, and if the teleeram and statement attributed to Mr Wilford are true. Mr Wilford is just seeking a way out of a dimcmty. The objectors to t riming came «p again before the Auckland Magistrate and were threat ened with a penalty. Parliament can't « 3 vi^l" n f~ ,t ,s to<l !at *- I think TTr Wi.ford is pr-»r^>in E thi> as an alternative to wirnionrt the diffindtv. It is stnp-d to think and Unman Catholic will th<> SaJvation Army. If t } u , Viv- iai! to accept alternatives, the MacUtrrite nu bo opium hut to pnnish them »