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DETAILS OF FAMILIES ARMED FORCES APPEALS “APPROXIMATELY NINE SONS” One of the most interesting features of appeals heard by the Armed Forces Appeal Board in New Plymouth recently was the ignorance of many parents in regard to their families, states the “Taranaki Herald.”
It is fairly common for a father to be uncertain of the exact ages of his sons and daughters, but one man, to the amusement of the board, was unable to give the full name of the son he was appealing for, and when asked what “A” stood for he had to refer the question to his wife, who was sitting in the body of the court.
Another man was asked if he knew the whereabouts of his twin daughters, aged 22; years. He replied that they had left home a few weeks ago and as far as he knew they were doing domestic work somewhere, in Wellington or Wan-
ganui. Then there was a man who stated rather hesitantly that he had nine sons. “Did. you say nine?” asked the Crown representative. “Well, approximately nine,” replied the man, amid laughter. A farmer with a large family could only trace two or three of his children, one of whom he was appealing for. Two of the other sons were “somewhere in New Zealand,” but he had not heard from them for years, and the location of one or two of the others was equally vague.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3139, 13 July 1942, Page 7
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