DEFENCE CRITICS
DISCIPLINARY ACTION?
NO STEPS TAKEN BY
MINISTER
It was stated, freely in Auckland on Friday that disciplinary action was being taken by the Government against four of the senior officers of . the New Zealand Territorial Force, who issued a joint statement recently criticising the Government's defence policy. However, the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones), in a telephone interview, stated that he had taken no action, but he declined to discuss the matter further, says the "New Zealand Herald." The statement that was- in circulation in the city was that the two Auckland officers who signed the manifesto, Colonel C. B. Spragg and Colonel N. L. Macky, had been notified that, ;as from July 11, they were to be posted to the retired list. The other officers who. signed the statement were Colonel A. S. Wilder, of Waipukurau, and Colonel R. F. Gambrill, of Gisborne. When the matter' was brought under the notice of Colonel Spragg on Friday night he declined to discuss it.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 131, 6 June 1938, Page 10
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167DEFENCE CRITICS Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 131, 6 June 1938, Page 10
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