MILITARY OBJECTORS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 May 1928, Page 6

MILITARY OBJECTORS.

NOT WANTED. IX ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WANGANUI, Tuesday. At a meeting to-night of the Wanganui St. John Ambulance Brigade, the following motion was carried: That the Wanganui Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade places on record its disapproval of Mr E. D. Moslej, S.M., of Christchurch,, who, dealing with a recent case of objection to military training allowed the claim of defendant providing he remained a member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade until he reached the age of 21. As members of the Brigade Department of the Order of St. John, the senior branch of the Red Cross organisation of the British Empire, we enter into a specific agreement to maintain such a standard of organised efficiency and arc prepared to serve as auxiliaries to medical establishments of . either the Navy or the Army in time of war, as well as to civic authorities or - the Health Department of the Government. This 'being the case, our ranks arc not made np of objectors, conscientious or otherwise, but of men prepared ,to help to win a war or to serve the community

in times of peace.” A copy of .this resolution is to be forwarded to the Magistrate and to all divisions of the Brigade throughout the ‘Domini on.