THE CONNORS' APPEAL CASE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3156, 7 August 1917, Page 6

THE CONNORS' APPEAL CASE

Sir,—ln reply to P.' Connor's letter In.' your issue of 2nd inst., stating tuat the settlers here probably think too much 01: their "hides" to ask him why he was not at the front, I may remind him that when he was out shooting a. settler plainly told him that he should be shoulderanother kind of gun at the frontTile Connor boys know, as all in the district know, that they could have gone with causing very little inconvenience to their farm business, as tliey nave plenty "of labour left to carry it on. There are hundreds .of harder cases,, where men have had to go. In tact* the chairman of the Appeal Board at TCoodville, according to the report, admitted that there were plenty of harder cases than his that had to go. Is it not remarkable that these three brothers were served under section 35 some eight months ago, and only one has just into camp a few weeks ago? "he Question that is heard on every side is \V no is pulling the strings?" He states that we seem to want his faSier's farm to be run . on the onehorse principle." Even if the thiee sons eligible for service went to the front there sfill remains five of the tamilv, the youngest being 13 .years, and a. bov engaged from the Weraroa-Farm, all as strong and healthy as tlle family. This seems to me to be far from, the one-horse principle." . As to whether our evidence at the court was correct or otherwise, I guarantee that if the whole of.lvireaiha subpoenaed to give evidence, as we were, fully ninetyrfive per cent, would £ivo similar evidence to that which we In conclusion, I wish to contradict appellant's statement in the Appeal Court that I gave evidence in order to ■ cause, his father's form" to be sold below its value, and that I wanted to buy :t. I have no- desire to do so, nor even mentioned, buving it. Such statements are only made with the object of trying to cast an element of spite into the case. I have no ■animosity against these boys, and wisii t'euf every suecess.-I am, $ft DEK . Nirealia.