No One Can Say What Will Be Done

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 279, 25 November 1939, Page 6

No One Can Say What Will Be Done

Labour and Conscription

NO START WITH FLESH AND BLOOD Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Nov. 24. The statement made by Mr. J. G. Barclay, M.P. jfor Marsden, iu an address at Cambridge that “the Government would call up man power as Boon as it was not getting enough men” was the subject of comment to-day by Dr. D. G. McMillan, M.P. Mr. McMillan stated that, after the report of Mr. Barclay’s statement had appeared in the press, he had received a number of inquiries and, accordingly, had telegraphed the Prime Minister and Mr. Barclay. “I am informed,” Dr. McMillan added, “that Mr. Barclay was expressing his own opinion only. Dr. McMillan said that Mr. Savage, in his reply, reiterated his statement of 12 months ago, that no one could say what a nation might have to do when it had its back to the wall fighting for its life, but that, if ever conscription came in New Zealand, it would not begin with flesh and blood. Dr. McMillan added that he underwood that conscription was one of the major questions to be discussed at the annual conference of the Labour Partv next Easter.