'NOT MUCH SYMPATHY'

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 62, 14 March 1944, Page 6

'NOT MUCH SYMPATHY'

CHAIRMAN'S COMMENT A BOOT REPAIRER'S APPEAL "I have not much sympathy for a man who, just before being called up in the ballot, purchases a business and now wants to keep his business together," said the chairman of the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board, Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., when Terence McClatchey Lockington, manager of a boot repairing shop, appeared before the board this morning and appealed for exemption from military service.

On behalf of Lockington, Mr. Simpson said that the reservist, in purchasing the business 12 months before he was called in the ballot, had no idea of evading his military duties. He was previously employed in a bank, but he saw no prospects of advancement in that employment. Had he remained in the bank he would probably have been appealed for.

The appeal was adjourned sine die, the chairman remarking that if there was a big demand for men in the reservist's category he might have to go into camp.

An appeal was also lodged by Lockington on behalf of Frank Christian Stringer, employed by him as a boot repairer. It was stated that Stringer, who had appealed on account of his wife's health, now withdrew the appeal as his wife had improved in health. The employer's appeal was dismissed on condition that the reservist was not called up until June 1.