RELEASE OF DEFAULTERS
FOUR APPLICATIONS HEARD Palmerston N. ( June 27. Four applications for release on parole from defaulters’ detention camps were heard to-day by the No. 2 Revision Authority, decisions being reserved in each instance. Mr W. H. Woodward presided and Mr J. A. Duffy was the Crown representative. Considerable public interest was evinced, the seating accommodation being fully taxed, and many persons had to stand. The applications were by Ronald Colverley Megget, Dunedin. Arthur Tom Winston Sharp, Palmerston North. Wilfred Edward Holmes Petone. and Walter Robert Dearsly, Wanganui. FOUR AUCKLAND CASES Auckland, June 27. The appeals of four men in defaulters’ camps were dealt with by the revision authority to-day, all of them being men who based their applications on religious beliefs. Only one of the applicants was represented by counsel, the others conducting their own cases and calling evidence regarding their religious background and sincerity. Questions put to the applicants dealt mainly with their religious views the period of their church memoership, their views on non-combatant service, and their possible reactions to acts of violence imposed on them and their kith and kin by the enemy. Decisions were reserved in all cases.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 28 June 1945, Page 4
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