COMPULSORY SERVICE
BILL TO BE INTRODUCED THIS WEEK WELLINGTON, May 13. Tlio Compulsory Service Bill came before Cabinet for final re-vision this morning. It Will he introduced in the House* next week, .•is -non as tho debate on the Address-in-R( ply concludes. " It is intended,''' said the Prime Minister, to-day, "to get at the shirker, and to compel him to do his duty to his country. That it will have this effect I have not the faintest doubt. The only exemptions granted will be those necessary for carrying e n tho services and industries of the dominion." Our correspondent says that the discussion on the Bill will probably be taken at an early date, but the Pensions and Soldiers' Land Settlement Bill will be dealt with first. SURPRISE IN STORE FOR SHIRKERS. OHRISTCHURCH, May 12. The Hon. G. W. Russell to-day declined
to discuss the Military Service Bill beyond saying that it would deal with exemptions, and that shirkers would get a surprise.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3244, 17 May 1916, Page 50
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