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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 9

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APPEAL AGAINST SERVICE

(0.C.) PALMERSTON N., This Day. "The board is asked to keep this man, who ought to be in the Armed | Forces, out of the Services for the sake of eight cows. The board would not do that for twice eight cows," said Mr. A. Coleman, S.M., chairman of No. 3 Armed Forces Appeal Board, to James Nairn, retired schoolmaster, of Feilding, who was appealing for his son, Owen H. Nairn, who is helping a married brother with 51 cows. This brother, Norman C. Nairn, told the board that he and his wife were prepared to try and carry: on while the reservist was away. He had told his father that, but apparently the father's opinion was that he needed assistance. He would like to see the herd reduced, nevertheless, to 40 or 43 cows. The board dismissed the appeal, the chairman stating that the father's anxiety to make the farm profitable overlooked the central fact that it would involve the loss to the country of an able-bodied map essential to the Forces. The board ; had had a case before it where one man on 160 acres was milking 60 cows, in addition to attending to pigs and cropping, while there had also been the case of one man and an elderly lady aged 64 milking 100 cows on 263 acres.