NOT SUSTAINED.
APPEAL ON GROUND OF STATUS.
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 20. In the first case of its kind to he heard by No. 5 Armed Forces Appeal Board, the chairman, Mr F..F. Reid, S.M., announced the Board’s decision in the appeal heard at Westport in which Michael O’Connor, on the grounds of status, claimed to bo exempt from overseas service as a eitiznn of Eire. The board, in dismissing the appeal, found that bo was a natural born British subject and resident oi New Zealand and was, therefore, properly within the division, but whether he should be called up for service was a policy matter to be determined by the Government.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 186, 21 May 1941, Page 6
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