QUAKERS AND MILITARY SERVICE
INTERESTING SPEECH BY MR WILFORD. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.! WELLINGTON, This Day. An interesting contribution, to Mr Wright's discussion regarding 1 the question of the exemption of Quakers and other religious objectors from rojhtarv service was a speech by Mr \\iiford. the son of a Quakeress. He declared that the Quakers in the Dominion had not : as a body asked for exemption, and that they did not desire it. Mv mother," •he said, "is a Quakeress,-and she, her sister, and brothers, with one exception, had- sent representatives to the front, and have assisted m recruitins." He cited the case of one Quaker with four sons and a The four sons, he saidj were fighting in France, and the daughter had been acting as "a nurse in France since the beginning of the war, i ' Mr Isitt: Have they abandoned Quaker teaching? , ~ Mr Wilford : No. Ido not believe that the Quakers of the world take up the position that it is _ now alleged is taken up by Quakers in New Zealand. Ever since Cardinal Herder, issued his challenge to the •German Ismpire, Quakers have' volunteered as freely as other people have done. Some'members say it would be a slur upon Quakers to refuse to exempt them, he could but say, "it would be a slur to exempt them.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 6 July 1916, Page 3
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