EXEMPTION OF TEACHERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 28, 27 October 1917, Page 8

EXEMPTION OF TEACHERS

EFFECT OF LEGISLATION. Questions about the effect of the exemption of teachers upon schoolmasters were asked in the House:of Representatives yesterday.

The Hon..lt. H. Rhodes said that the previous evening,the House had passed. a clause in. the / Expeditionary Forces Bill exempting school teachers from service. .Members accepted defeat on that clause, and if it was passed by the Upper House nothing more would be said about it. What he desired to know was how it would affect, teachers who had been called up in the ballot, but who were'not jet in camp, and how it would affect those teachers .new in camp, and.how it would affect-those teachers now Irving at the front. -Sir James Allen said that as far as Lb could make out the amendment passed the previous night-was very far-reaching. It would take out of the reserve all toacherswho'had not been called up, arid would exempt every teacher who became 20 years of age hereafter. He was not; quite sure- as to this point,' but he! thought it would exempt all those serv- ■■ ing in camp,, and all those serving sen-. tehees -imposed, by courts-martial. Ho ■. did not think it would exempt those already in the Expeditionary Force and on. service at. the front. .. • Mr. Rhode?: Or those who had enlisted voluntarily? ~,,,, t Sir James Allen said that h/, was not quite sure on this point.