PARSONS IN KHAKI.
QUESTION OF DUTIESA MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. rrcss Association. AUCKLAND, March 5. Sir James Allen says that as far as the Defence Department is concerned, it is not its desire to compel clergymen who are averse to combatant duties to go into the firing line. In the cases of two Roman Catholic students who were recently drawn in the ballot, and whose appeals were dismissed, the Military W Service Board recommended that they be given non-combatant work. That recommendation will be respected, and the same course will be followed in all cases-in which clergymen who are called up prefer noncombatant to combatant work. Already in the non-combatant section at Awapuni Camp there are three clergymen—an Anglican, a Presbyterian and a Methodist.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 956, 5 March 1917, Page 10
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