HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
.REPLIES TO QUESTIONS.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 24 The House met at 2.30. Replying to Mr. A. Walker the. Minister of Defence said that the position of tlie men ordered into camp, who iiad sold their businesses, in order to <!o so, and who afterwards were discharged as medically unfit, was .iiiiong.-st the most difficult problems Ihe Defence Department had to deal
with. The question v.yeuier they were entitled to compensation would be considered by,. Cabinet.
Replying to Mr. P. C. Webb the Minister of Justice said that it was proposed to extend certain concessions to well behaved prisoners with a view to improving the conditions at Lyttelton gaol.
Replying to Dr. 11. T... J. Thackcr ihe Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald said that the Board of Trade was working under a statute and it had been instructed to take, in all cases of proved exploitation, the course directed by law. He as Minister, had no power to override the law and he had never attempted to do so.
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Grey River Argus, 25 August 1917, Page 3
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