[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NATIONAL PEACE COUNCIL.
DEFENCE ACT. i CHRISTCHURCH, Bth January. The National Peace Council met today to consider the present situation regarding the threatened prosecutions under the Defence Act. After discussing the matter fully, the following resolution was carried: — "That this council most emphatically protects against the action of the Government in threatening prosecutions under the Defence Act, with the intention of intimidating boys, notwithstanding the fact that it was clearly stated fay the Acting-Minister for Defence, on the floor of the House prior to the elections,- that no .further prosecutions under' the Defence Act would bo instituted, and that instructions to this effect have been iesusd in a recent memorandum to the military authorities." The council discussed the probability of any prosecutions being instituted, and decided that, in that event, they would at once take vigorous steps to organise and make effective the opposition to the scheme throughout the Dominion.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1912, Page 3
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152[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NATIONAL PEACE COUNCIL. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1912, Page 3
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