VOTING AT ELECTION
DEFAULTERS WHO REPENT "Would the Prime Minister inform the House what steps are being taken , to debar defaulters who have been re- f leased from detention camps exercising their votes at the forthcoming election?" asked Mr. A. S. Sutherland > (National, Hauraki) in a notice of question in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon. The Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser), who replied at once, suggested that the member was confusing military defaulters with conscientious objectors. There was only one reason for V discharging defaulters from the deten- ■ tion camps, and that was that they had - repented and joined the forces. All British countries took the view that persons proved to have conscientious objections to military service were excused, and were not disfranchised. Mr. Sutherland said he had a letter from a constituent stating that a man from a defaulters' camp was not in 4 the forces. ,* The Prime Minister replied that such an allegation would have to be looked ! i into, but if a man in the defaulters' I camp said that he was prepared to fight. - * ,he was released. Some of them had 1 gone out, and' their officers said they V - had done splendid work. ■. ,- ",-/
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 4
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198VOTING AT ELECTION Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1943, Page 4
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