"AN INFAMOUS LIE!"
NEW ZEALAND MILITARY SYSTEM
"FARMERS' SONS TORN FROM
THEIR BEDS"
(Rec. December 2, 11.15 p.m.) Sydney, December 2. Mr. Hughes, speaking at Tannvorth, stated that he bad sent a cablo mes6ago to Mr. Massey asking if there was any truth in the statement published in an Ipswich paper that the New Zealand Government's 'pledges that sufficient labour would bo exempted to carry on necessary industries in the country bad been broken, and farmers' sons had been torn from their beds in the dead of night. Mr. Massey had replied that every pledge mado was being loyally kept. The statement • regarding farmers' sons was a vile and infamous lie. The system in New Zealand ivas working smoothly.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 59, 3 December 1917, Page 6
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