MILITARY TRAINING.
NATIONAL PEACE COUNCIL. CHRISTCHURCH, January 8. The National Peace Council met to-day to consider the present situation regarding the threatened prosecutions under the Defence Act. After discussing tho matter fully tho following resolution was carried: —“That this council most emphatically protests against the action of the Government in threatening prosecutions under the Defence Act with tiho intention of intimidating boys notwi'thsrtandmg the fact that it was clearly started by tho Acting Minister of Defence on the floor of the House, prior to the elections, that no further prosecutions under tho Defence Act would bo instituted and that instructions to this effect have been ■issued in a recent memorandum to tho 'military authorities.” The council d'se i.'red the probability of anv .prosecutions bung instituted, and decided. that in that event it would at once take vigorous steps to organi c and make effective the opposition to tho scheme throughout the Dominion.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3017, 10 January 1912, Page 60
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152MILITARY TRAINING. Otago Witness, Issue 3017, 10 January 1912, Page 60
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