STERNER TREATMENT FOR DEFAULTERS
DEPRIVATIONS OF CIVIL RIGHTS URGED
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, January 28. “We have with us the man who won’t go to the war in any circumstance,” said the Hon. W. Perry speaking at a Wellington Returned Services Association luncheon. “All that happens to him now is that he gets a month in gaol after which he enters a defaulters’ camp and lives in comparative comfort for the duration of the war. The association is emphatically of the opinion, and it has placed its views before the Government, that the detention of defaulters for the duration of the war Is not sufficient. They should be kept in their camp for some time after the war and when they come out they should be deprived of their civil rights for a further considerable time.
“It is illogical that they should come out after the war and enjoy the same right to vote and even the right to stand for Parliament as you or I have,” Mr Perry concluded. “If a man has a conscience, then he could not possibly object to having to pay for it in that way.” '
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Southland Times, Issue 24655, 29 January 1942, Page 4
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