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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10085, 26 September 1918, Page 4

The board that has been sitting to consider the question of revision of salaries paid to military officers has concluded its deliberairtions, and the recommendations will bo made known in due course.

• Speaking at his-opening H. Atmore, Radical candidate for Wellington Central, in deprecating tie introduction of sectarianism into the political arena, said it was. a wicked thing to .do at any time, but more. particularly so at the present period of world crisis. If it were intrctduced into' the party strife it would spread to the military camps, and from there to the trenches. He drew a picture of the brilliant military genius, Marshal Foch, who is a Catholic, leading the army oj freedom, composed of Catholics and Protestants, against the G«rm«n hordes, also. composed of Catholics and Protestants, and ruled by a Protestant Kaiser. Mr Atmore referred to the unwisdom of introducing such a disintegrating influence ae sectarianism into the Allies' splendid armies. (Loud ipplauso.)

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