DEFENCE SUBJECTS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 68, 18 September 1917, Page 7

DEFENCE SUBJECTS

MILITARY APPEAL BOARDS.

Complaint was Made by Mr. J. :G. Thomson in the House .last night that a certain Military Appeal Board had gone out of its way to make, utterances of. a political nature. Could it not, asked Mr. Thomson, be distinctly laid dawn that when a producer had several sons serving at the front and only one remained behind, \ that bn6 ' should 1 be: exempted, so as to enable the. work. of the farm to-be carried ■■ on. The-■ Prime Minister said he. had heard complaints, in regard to. the boards.. Members Would have an opportunity of • amending the i Act later on-,this.session. ', FARMERS ON. LEAVE.... / , Wli-eli que&tioii tinte arrived in ,*the House last night, Mr."G;.-J. Anderson: asked what was being done a-bc-ut the men of. the. 29th aiid 30th Reinforcements who had been given leave for the purpose of looidng after their farms.' The I Prime - Minister -said that-the -question Would be referred to the Minister of Defence;, • '. . . '■; '„- ,;. ..:,, .'■' OAiSE OF PTE. FITZGERALD. As soon as the House of Representatives met last nightj.Mr.'J. Vdgor.^rown asked what was going to be done in the case of Pie. Edward Fitzgerald,-who" had been sentenced to twelve months''ini- : prisonment, ■as the result of a -courtmartial, „for desertion. The -Prime Minister said lie had never henrd« anything of the case until lie saw it in the news- ! paper. He could only ask the member to ] suspend his-' judgment until the. Minister of fieience made a-full explanation, when the Expeditionary Force Amendnjent Bill was before .the House... ■ . • • -.-