Refusal to Help
COLLEGE STUDENT’S APPEAL CHRISTCHURCH, June 16. “Take all, give nothing, is your creed, apparently’,” said the chairman, Mr. F. F. Reid, S.M., at a sitting of the Armed Forces Appeal Board at Christchurch, during the hearing of an appeal by Frank Hurst, a chemistry student, on the grounds of conscientious objection. In a statement to tho Court reservist said he would do nothing in the war effort to assist the country. * ‘ There are a lot of you young fellows at Canterbury College displaying a colossal conceit in the stand you are taking, ” said Mr. \V. F. Tracy, representing the Crown. “This stand you take is not on religious grounds, is it?” Hurst: No. What are the grounds, then? —I just want to help to make people happy. You refuse to serve in a noncombatant unit, or the Emergency Precautions Scheme or in ambulance work. There are quite a lot of you students think that way?—This is my own decision. Who is teaching these views round there?—There is no teacher. You have a group or a circle there, havo you not?—No, I am all alone in this. Decision was reserved.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 144, 19 June 1941, Page 2
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192Refusal to Help Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 144, 19 June 1941, Page 2
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