DISCHARGED SOLDIERS WHO DID NOT ENROL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 75, 29 March 1919, Page 5

DISCHARGED SOLDIERS WHO DID NOT ENROL

indignation meeting in AUCKLAND. (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 28. A crowded public meeting convened by the Mayor in response to representations by various interests passed the following resolution: "That the meeting directs the attention of -he Government to the position created in regard to the disfranchisement of re'urned soldiers by an Ordcr-in-'UouncU of December 19th last, in which It was provided that members of the Expeditionary Force returned to New Zealand af.er February Ist, 1919, and before the date of the poll should be entitled to vote as if rimy were members of The Expeditionary Force, wlrich order _ was subsequently revoked practically, an the eve of the closing of The rolls. The position thus -created appears to this meeting to he most imlair and such as entitles to claim at the hands of the Government immediate provision to enable them to legally exercise their vote. meeting therefor? demands That the Government take immediate steps to make pro vision bv reateeting or other means, failing which a special session of Parira ment To enact the necessary prisons be called. Further, if legal diftn.i.-m* are nnsurmountable the meeting demand. that the Government make provision for an informal vo'e to be taken on April IDth ot aT men aifected. srch vote to be vaiirlamd when Ram ament meets.”