MILITARY SERVICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 148, 23 May 1928, Page 3

MILITARY SERVICE.

OBJECTION DEALT WITH. PROTEST BY ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE. Per Press Association. WANGANUI, May 22. At a meeting to-night of the Wanganui Ambulance Brigade, the following motipn was passed:—“That the Wanganui division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade places on record its disapproval of Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., of Christchurch, who, in dealing with a recent case of objection to military training, allowed the claim of defendant, provided he remained a member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade until he reached the age of 21. As members of the Brigade of the Independent Order of St. John, the senior branch of the Red Cross organisation of the British Empire, we enter into a specific agreement to maintain such a standard of organised efficiency that we shall be prepared to servo as auxiliaries to the medical establishment of either the navy or the army in time of war, as well as to the civic authorities of the Health Department of the Government. This being the case, our ranks are not made up of objectors, conscientious or otherwise, but of men prepared to help win a war or to serve the community in times of peace.” A copy of this resolution is to bo forwarded to the magistrate, and to all divisions of the brigade throughout the Dominion.