EXPEDITIONARY FORCE BILL.
AMENDING MEASURE PASSED. "{By Telegraph. —Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Expeditionary Forces Amendment. Bill came before the House of Representatives agian, in the second reading stage, which was adjourned a month ago. * The whole of the discussion;, centred around the sending of members of a religious . order to the frost in a combatant capacity. Many members spoke, and the Minister replied* that it was better that- teachers and." ministers should go forward. The House went into committee on the "Bill. Sir J. G. Ward moved an amendment, exempting any person teaching or lecturing under the Education Act or a teacher in a school not conducted for pecuniary profit. iSir James Allen refused to accept the amendment which, on a division, was carried by 36 to 32. After .another, division the' clause relating to the confiscation of deserters' lands was lost: ' ''-'•'. -Al;clause was carried providing that where,- there. were four sons, three be-ing-at the front, the last shall not be called lipThe, Bill passed all its stages.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 26 October 1917, Page 5
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