CONSCRIPTION ISSUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 35, 10 February 1940, Page 12

CONSCRIPTION ISSUE

MAN-POWER OF N.Z.

COUNTY DISCUSSION

(Special to the "Evening Post.")

LEVIN, This Day.

A motion expressing the opinion that New Zealand should'have a national register and that the man-power 3f the Dominion should be conscripted for the prosecution of the war was carried at a meeting of the Horowhenua County Council today.

A letter was received from tthe New Zealand Defence League asking the council for its co-operation in urging on the Government the necessity of universal compulsory military service.

The chairman, Mr. G. A. Monk, said the Government had unquestionably done the.right thing in guaranteeing to assist the Motherland to the utmost. He held a strong conviction, however, that there should be a national register and that every man should be taken in his turn. If Britain lost the war, Britain would still be Britain, but one indisputable fact stood out—New Zealand would no longer be New Zealand. He had sons of military age, so it could not be said that he was sheltering behind the sons of other men.

Mr. Monk moved the motion outlined above.

The motion was seconded by Councillor A. M. Colquhoun.

Councillor Jensen said that though compulsory military training was an absolute necessity, he doubted if it was within the province of the council to commit the county to such a motion.

Councillor Gimblett said he believed the resolution would express the feelings' of the vast majority of ratepayers.

The motion was carried with one dissentient, Councillor Jensen.