THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS' APPEAL.
EXEMPTION* REFUSED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Appeals were made to the Military Service Board to-day by Archbishop O'Shca, who was represented by Mr. H. P. O'Leary. on behalf of Patrick Francis | McCarthy, John Alexander Higgins, and Joseph Victor Spillane, theological students at Greenmendows. Mr. O'Leary asked the chairman whether, in view of the different rulings by various Boards, the present Board consider d the Minister's certificate mandatory. The chairman replied in (he negative. Archbishop O'Shea stated that each of the students was in the Inst four years of bis course, and had taken temporary vows. In reply to the military representative, the archbishop said those vows could be abandoned.' They were not like the final vows, but were only vows obedience. The Board granted leave to July 24.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147, 21 June 1917, Page 6
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