UNIVERSAL TRAINING
AUSTRALIAN ACT SUPPORTED RY LABOUR CONFERENCE. B y Telegraph—Press Association—Copy rich < SYDNEY, February 10. A determined effort was made by a section of the Labour Conference to have compulsory training entirely abolished. Mr J. C. Watson, however, throw his weighty influence into the scale on behalf of the compulsory basis of the Defence Act, the result being that a largo majority supported the present system. In view of a number of serious allegations that abuses had crept into the administration of the’ Act, the conference decided to demand a Royal Commission of inquiry.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8653, 11 February 1914, Page 7
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