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Local Tribunals (Exemptions)

Volume 103: debated on Thursday 7 March 1918

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asked the Minister of National Service, whether men of forty-one, of military age and military fitness. are permitted exemption on the ground of repairing fences, working the electric light installation of a mansion house, looking after the gravitation water, and cutting timber for the same; and whether discharged soldiers have been found unfit for these posts?

Any exemptions of the kind indicated by the hon. Member must have been granted by a tribunal. If the hon. Member produces specific cases of alleged improper exemption, they will be inquired into.

May we take it from what the hon. Gentleman has said that if such a case as this exists, it is traceable to undue influence with the tribunal?