LIST OF DEFAULTERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 May 1946, Page 2

LIST OF DEFAULTERS

ROLL TO BE FURNISHED-TO R.S.A. • BRIGADIER INGLIS (PA.) WELLINGTON, May 29. The Dominion Executive Committee of the New Zealand Returned Services Association has a staff engaged at present compiling a roll, of military defaulters whose names have been published at various times m the New Zealand Gazette. When this roll is completed, nil associations will be furnished with copies. This was announced at the conference of the-New Zealand Returned Services Association to-night by the Dominion vicepresident, Mr. C. Bell. ' Mr. Bell said that up till now the Dominion executive had been unsuccessful in obtaining a complete list from the authorities. The names had of course been published in various issues of the Gazette, but the association wanted a complete roll. Bepresentations had been made to tn e National Service Department but the Executive had been put off by one excuse or another. First it was said there was no' staff to do the job. fine executive replied that it would supply the staff. Then it was told civil servants must do the job. Ihe executive got a few together, but it was met.with subterfuge all along. The conference deplored the fact that the Government had repeatedly ignored its representations regarding military defaulters. It reiterated its dissatisfaction that defaulters had been' released before all men who served their country in time of peril had been rehabilitated. The conferende had' no recommendation to make on an Oamaru R.S.A. resolution, in the form of a late remit, regarding the evidence given by Brigadier L. M. Inglis, at the trial of the German, General Student, at the war crimes tribunal ac Luneberg. The Oamaru remit was taken in committee, after its consideration by a sub-committee, which had no recommendation to make. When the remit came before the full conference in committee, there was no discussion.