MILKMAN APPEALS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 107, 8 May 1941, Page 9

MILKMAN APPEALS

DELIVERY 63 GALLONS

PARTNER OX HOME SERVICE

Partner in a milk delivery business at Bayswater, Alfred Thomas Matthews appeared before the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board this morning and appealed against being called up for military service on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship. His wife was a coappellant. It was stated in evidence that Matthews, who was 26 years of age, had carried out three "months' territorial training at Waiouru camp. During that time his brother, with whom he was in partnership, had done the delivery work but now he was permanently on home service at one of the forts. The purchase money for the business was borrowed from appellant's parents, the repayment of which constituted their only income. The milk round in a zoned area under the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council, represented a distribution of 63 gallons daily, and appellant delivered 58 gallons. A married brother delivered the remaining five gallons each morning before going to work in the city. The appeal was adjourned until the first meeting of the board in August inquiries to be made in the meantime with a view to ascertaining whether appellant's brother was doing essential work in home defence, the chairman, Mr. C. R. Orr ■\Valker, S.M., commenting that one of the partners would have to look after the business.