"PREJUDICED"
YOUNG MAN'S APPEAL FAILS
Because his Italian parentage might cause ill feeling among the men in camp, a young man born in New Zealand of Italian parents, and an employee at the fish markets, appealed before the Wellington Man-power Committee today for exemption from military training. He had never been outside the country, he said.
The chairman, Mr. M. F. Luckie, asked why the man claimed to be Italian. If he had been born here, he was a British subject and was not even obliged to become naturalised.
"I am an Italian because of parentr age," the young man said, "and it might cause ill feeling among the men if I were sent into camp." The appellant added that he had been abused and treated unfairly because of his parentage, and, as a result, he was "prejudiced against all this sort of thing."
The appeal was dismissed,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 14, 17 January 1941, Page 8
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