ENFORCING THE DEFENCE ACT
THE MINISTER'S ATTITUDE.
A letteii protesting against the imprisonment of those who have refused to comply with tho requirements of tho Defence Act wafl addressed to the Minister for Defence on April 23 by Mr. J. E. Taylor, president, of the Auckland branch of the International Arbitration and Peace Association, and by Mr. ,J. G. Morris, president of the Anti-Militarist Council. A reply has been received by Mr. Taylor, in which tho Minister says he can only repeat his former statement that, as Minister for Defence, it is his duty to see that tho law as it stands at present is carried out. "You are under a misapprehension," the letter continues, " if you understood mo to say that no more imprisonment would take place*. You have since waited upon tho Prime Minister in regard to this subject, and I can only say I am in agreement with the statements he expressed."
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Taylor sent a telegram to tho Prime Minister stating that another batch of lads had been imprisoned, though this was not contemplated by the Act. Ho asked the Minister " to suspend the criminal procedure" until the matter had been considered by Cabinet, as Mr. Mackenzie promised it should be.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14984, 4 May 1912, Page 8
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