ATTITUDE TO WAR
QUESTIONS ASKED MR FRASER, (Per PrfeoS Association —Copyright.; WELLINGTON September 21. “It would be obvious that if war came everybody, and all wealth Would have to be placed at the service of the Dominion” said the Minister for Education, Hon. P, Eraser, when addressing a. political meeting in Wellington when asked by a questioner whether in the event of an outbreak of war the Labour / Government would conscript wealth before manpower.
“What has been, going on with regard to dictatorship Governments makes its all the more keen to maintain democratic institutions” added : Mr Fraser. “There can be no conscription of the people without conscription of wealth.” Asked what the Government’s attitude towards conscientious objectors would be iu tlie event of war j the Minister said that those people whose religious convictions were such that they did not believe they should take part in a Avar, ivould have to be considered blit there were very feiv of them, and he thought there Avas plenty of useful Avork they could do apart from actual fighting. However if a hostile cruiser came to Ncav Zealand conscientious obi jectors ivould be subject to the same cruelties as anyone else,” ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1938, Page 5
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