APPEAL DISMISSED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20649, 27 December 1941, Page 7

APPEAL DISMISSED

CASE OF FARMER’S SON

FAILED TO JOIN GUARD

“Your boy was exempted from military services for the time being on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship on the condition that he joined the Home Guard and he has not done so,” said the chairman of the No. 1 Armed-Forces Appeal Board, Mr. Orr Walker, S.M., at Papakura, to John "Henry Gunson, farmer, who had appealed for his son, Ralph Henry Gunson," ‘ farm hand, at a previous sitting of. the board. The case was; reviewed because the son had not joined the Home Guard. "

Co-appellant, the father, said the boy had been ill, and was not fit to join the Home Guard. The chairman: - The point is, yoyr son has ' not : complied' With' the Hd&e Guard condition -of ’■''thi£t : Afrpetd Board, f M

Co-appellant: He is just able to leave his bed and mijic - the ! ' ! only. He could not stand' both Home Guard and farm work. ’ T** The chairman: He has not even taken the preliminary steps of joining the Home Guard, no doubt under your’ r advice. That is fairly ’ J bbvio’us. Whether he is physically "fit -or not must be left to the Home Guard commandant, not this board. The appeal was dismissed.