NO INTENTION TO CONSCRIPT
Mr. Barnard’s Denial Dominion Special Service. NAPIER, December 12. An emphatic denial that the Government was preparing a scheme to bring in conscription early in the New Year was given today by the M.P. for Napier, Mr. Barnard, when rumours that such a move was afoot were referred to him. The story that prompted inquiry has been circulated freely in Napier and Hastings. It was that all men between the ages of 20 and 35 were to be conscripted for military service overseas on April 1 of next year.
Mr. Barnard, who is a member of the New Zealand Defence Council, said no such scheme had ever been considered by the Government’s Parliamentary caucus, and he was satisfied that the step suggested would not be taken without it being discussed there first.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 68, 13 December 1939, Page 6
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