FARMERS AND MILITARY SERVICE
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, September 13. The Executive of the Farmers' Union, at its meeting to-day, considered a letter from the president of tlio Marlborough branch asking for support for an agitation that no more men be called up from the agricultural and pastoral industries, and ether recommendations appertaining thereto The executive deoliued to support them. A resolution was passed statins that the executive had ahyays objected to the indiscriminate conscription of men from agential industries, that they could not support the absolute exemption or farmen and farm workers, that they thought each case would have to be decided on its own merits, and that tne union should assist in appeala and supply reliable evidence.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3190, 14 September 1917, Page 6
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119FARMERS AND MILITARY SERVICE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3190, 14 September 1917, Page 6
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