CITIZENS OF EIRE
SERVICE IN FORCES
LIABILITY QUESTION
ISSUE IN APPEALS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The position of citizens of Eire was referred to at a sitting of No. 1 Armed Services Appeal Board when Mr. M. Robinson asked for an adjournment in the case of a labourer, Patrick Egan, stating that a number of similar cases were to be heard by the hoard next week.
Mr. Robinson said that he had received instructions from his principals in Wellington that it was understood communications were being carried on with the Eire Government. He saici it seemed funny to hear ol' Irishmen refusing to light, hut there were certain circumstances .in connection with such cases. Some of the appeals were based on the fact that Eire citizens could not be placed in the British forces.
The chairman, Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, said the hoard would have to decide whether such men were British subjects and the Attorney-General, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, had ruled that as they were natural-born Britons they were liable for service. An adjournment was granted to June 10.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20572, 4 June 1941, Page 6
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