APPEALS DISMISSED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 118, 12 February 1941, Page 5

APPEALS DISMISSED

Witnesses Of Jehovah And

Military Service Two Witnesses of Jehovah who said they were prepared to do nothing at all in the war effort had their appeals against service on conscientious grounds dismissed by the Wellington Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday. They were Raymond Lewis Weeber, house decorator, and Ronald Claverley Megget, wool clerk. The Crown representative, Mr. C. O. Bell (to Weeber) : Your organization is against all organized forms of Christianity? Weeber: It is against the religions of the scribes and pharisees. Against the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish relgions, with your objective the prevention of their practice — Jehovah will do that: we only preach the truth. Are the British Empire ami the United States among the Satanic organizations which, it is stated in your manifesto, will be destroyed by Jehovah ?—Yes. You are really aganst the Empire? —I am not, but Jehovah may be. The chairman,. Mr. W. F. Stilwell, SAL: You take the view that you are a neutral? —Yes, strictly. Both as an individual and as one of an organization?—Yes. “I am prepared to do nothing at all for the war effort,” said appellant. Megget said he had been a Jehovah’s Witness for three years. Before that he was a Methodist. He was prepared to do nothing whatever in. the wav effort. Mr. Bell: Is it not a fact that your organization does not relieve distress? —We are not here for that Iml to preach the gospel of the kingdom.