GERMANY HIS COUNTRY

Evening Star, Issue 23908, 11 June 1941, Page 2

GERMANY HIS COUNTRY

ALLEGED DECLARATION BY CIVIL SERVANT QUESTION RAISED 1H PARLIAMENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 10. A declaration that there was no room inside the Civil Service lor anyone who would not serve New Zealand to the full was made by Air Nash, replying in the House to an urgent question by Air W. J. Broadfoot (Opposition. Waitomo), who asked whether it was the Government’s intention to retain in its employ Civil servants who objected to performing military service, and he referred to a case which came before the Armed Forces Appeal Board in Wellington this week. This was the case of Ernest Jakob Volz, and Air Broadfoot asked if Volz was to continue in his employment as an accountant’s clerk in the Lands and Income Tax Department According to the Press report, V olz declared before the Armed Forces Appeal Board that he regarded Germany as his own country, and that he could not bring himself to fight against the Germans. ’ Air Nash referred to the course laid down for appellants against military service, and said that if appeals on tho grounds of conscience wore sustained the appellants were ordered to perform alternative service. With regard to thecase quoted by Air Broadfoot, inquiries were being made, and he would be glad to find out what was to he done to a person of that type, because they could not have anyone who would not serve New Zealand to the full inside the Public Service.