THE FARMING COMMUNITY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 June 1941, Page 6

THE FARMING COMMUNITY

RELEASE OF MEN FOR MILITARY : 1 service: 1 CRITICISM BY MEMBERS OF i APPEAL BOARD , Auckland, This Day. ’ The opinion that the farming com- c munity \v<is not giving the assistance 1 it should to appeal boards in arrang- 1 ing for the release of men for mili- ' c tary service was expressed at a sitting * of No. 1 Appeal Board by the chair- * man. Mr Orr Walker, S.M.. during the c hearing of a farm worker’s appeal. j The chairman said in the last war r every assistance was given by farmers r to release men. “The main objective c now, as far as I can see, is that the j farming community is bent on seeing , that nobody is taken off the farm,” he l added. A witness stated that the proportion of men taken from the farming indus- i try was higher than from other sec- * tions of the community. ' Mr A. M. Samuel, a member of the c board, disagreed, stating that a large a ers had been treated generously. He a number of appeals on behalf of farm- c said a bitter attack had been made on r a decision by the board in a published letter signed by A. E. Robinson, secretary of the Auckland executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union It was unfortunate that the letter had fol- 3 lowed closely cn the dismissal of an c appeal in which the appellant had been t represented by a prominent member of i; the farming community. “As an im- I s partial judicial body we occupy a re- n sponsffile postion,” said Mr Samuel, t lights'”— PA ° Ur j ° b accordin S to*bur t . ' c