COMMONWEALTH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145998, 3 December 1917, Page 3

COMMONWEALTH.

CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN. EXTRAORDINARY ' FICTIONS .ABOUT NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY,, Dec. 2. Mr. Hughes;-speakinyac Tamworth, stated that he had 1 tabled Air. Massey, ■asking if"'tKeve''STas si ahy ;: Tfuth'‘in’ i:: tho statement, published iri an. Ipswich paper, that the New Zealand Goyem- ■ ment’s • pledges ■ that ■ sufficient ‘ "dafibnr 'would 'be ’exempted to' carry : bn ."the 'necessary"industries' of "the ~ country, had been broken, and that farmers’ sons had been torn from their beds at dead of night. Mr. Massey had replied that every, pledge 'made- was being loyally kept. The ” statement regarding farmers’' sons was a vile, infamous lie. The system in New ’ Zealand Was 'working smoothly. k 1 Mr; Hughes approves of tho-pfinctple of the proposed reciprocal treaties between America and the Allies, whereby each country may draft for _ military service all Allied subjects within dta boundaries. In the event of; the'proposals being carried, the UtommonSvealtH will certainly co-operate with the Allies therein.