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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1917, Page 4

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!-!•■<>!! m ATI'>N WANTKI). lil SiXKSS OK i:VKi!Vi’OS>V. “.inst a few woids about {hi 1 m- U who have lift'ii drawn in tin- balm' iunl wlinin wi* have uni Ii 1 1 1 1 >' in lind." said the ■\• ■ tiisi;-1 -*f>mi- 'Minister !.■>;(■ .hum's Allen) 111 a, Post i «*| u.ftt»i-. "Tlteres - a fair mtmIn'i 1 of tln'in. and it may he Unit there is seine satis! aetof.v explanation ol our not being aide to liml them. We want Unit explanation. whether wo eel it from the man himself or from ins inends, «>r from Ihe [).il:ci“, or from the public. These lists ;ue being posted up at tdl the postoffices. We want them to be as piib.je as possible, because we tire on the search for cverv man. “Tlteie is, hov.-ever, another class of men who are treble deliberately to evade service. Wo ea'.l upon the public throughout New Zealand to assist us in finding these men. The Defence Department a.nd the police and post office are doing what thev can. but we consider it to be the dutv of every ciij/en in New Zealand (o "If they know a man who is evading service limy should inform ns. 1 want to point oat why they should do so. It a man is Irving to shirk lie is probably put liter into the ballot some man whose claim,; for exemption are greater titan his own, and who, but ini; tne shirker, would not have come into the ballot, it will tints be seen that it is to the interest of all. whether they belong to the first or Se -ond Division, to assist the authorities; in (his most important respect.