TRAINING CAMP
MODERATOR CRITICISES "MILI-
TARY CASTE."
(Special to the Herald.)
WELLINGTON, this day. At, a meeting of the Wellington Presbytery, when the Defence .Minister's proposal to have four months' training iin camp for . youths was unanimously condemned, the; Moderator, the Rev. J. H. MacKehzie, declared:.. We have created a military caste, and the military caste is going to defend what is its , vested interest. We had an example of that this afternoon at a meeting of the .chaplains' committee.' It was proposed to demobilise all. . chaplains m camps, "but how we are likely to hay e' one .granted representing Anglicans, Methodists, and Presbyterians. There are. m -hospital at Trentham about 200 patients, |'65.nurses, .14 doctors at JBBOO a year. !]' Mr Aitken : Sbni© of tlieni- at more.
Mr MacKehzie: I am putting that at the lowest, yet they did not want to a. single chaplain. That is the attitude of the military caste towards the Church.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 5
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