REFUSAL TO SERVE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23352, 11 June 1941, Page 6

REFUSAL TO SERVE

POSITION OF CIVIL ' ■ ' SERVANTS . “v." : ’. ■ J QUESTION ASKED IN 1 THE HOUSE | ■ (F.0.P.R.) WELLINGTON June 10. . An inquiry whether the % vernment: intended to retain in it**? Aoy civil': servants who, objectedM-6-informing l military service was made in an urgent'’ question which Mr W. J. Broadfoot. (Opposition, Waitomo) asked of the'. Acting-Prime Minister (the Hon. W, Nash) in the House to-day. - - “Will the Minister say whether Er.„ nest Jakob Volz is to continue in his employment as an accountant’s clerk in the Land and Income Tax Depart-, ment after declaring, According to the' press, to the Armed Forces Aprfeai; Board in Wellington yesterday, that he regards Germany as his own country; and that he could not bring himseU to fight against Germans? Mr Broadfoot asked. /■ Mr Nash replied that civil servants,:. like everyone else who appealed ,on conscientious grounds, and whose ap- > peals were sustained, were required to perform alternative service of some kind. In the particular case mentioned, he was having full inquiries made. He would say that on the facts ■ stated they could not have men of that, type who would not serve New Zea- .. land’ to the full, inside the civil service. ; „ Cries of Hear, hear” a