PRIME MINISTER'S STATEMENT.
BOYS IN A" COMMON GAOL. ACT MAY BE MODIFIED. A Post reporter interviewed the Prime Minister (the Hon. T. Mackenzie) today with reference to Cabinet's reported decision. His reply vpis as follows : — "Neither the previous Cabinet nor tbe present Cabinet," he eaid, "believed that it was ever intended to put our lads vito 'a common gaol, there to be clothed with gaol garments and to have their finger-prints taken like common criminals. " The provisions under the A.ct were thought to have been, sufficient to ensure obedience to its provisions, viz., depriving x those refusing to register of the right to vote, and depriving them also of ftheir right to enter the Civil Service. That, however, does not apappear to have been sufficient in some cases, and Cabinet is considering the propriety' of modifying the Act in some form next session.''
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 80, 3 April 1912, Page 8
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143PRIME MINISTER'S STATEMENT. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 80, 3 April 1912, Page 8
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