DECORATION RIBBONS
TIGHTER CONTROL URGED
"I question whether it was as easy as that," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) in the House of Representatives today after Mr. A. S. Sutherland (National, Hauraki) had drawn attention'in a notice of question to a report of a Court case in Wellington in -which a young man was convicted of unlawfully wearing a Military Medal ribbon. Mr. Sutherland asked whether the Minister of Defence would take steps to tighten control at Army headquarters to prevent a recurrence of such an unjustified issue of decoration ribbons. He added that,. according to the report, the ribbon was obtained at headquarters by the young man merely representing that he had been sent by a lieutenant-colonel.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1943, Page 3
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119DECORATION RIBBONS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 2, 2 July 1943, Page 3
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