REFUSAL TO HELP
COLLEGE STUDENT'S APPEAL 1 (0.C.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday "Take all. give nothing, is_ your creed, apparently," said the chairman, Mr. F. F Heid* S.M., at a sitting of the Armed Forces Appeal Board at the hearing of an appeal by Frank Hurst, a chemistry student, on the grounds of conscientious objection. In a statement to the Court reservist said he would do iioth* ing in the war effort to assist tli® country. "There are' a lot of you young fellows at Canterbury College displaying a colossal conceit in the stand you are taking," said Mr W. 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 non-com-batant unit, or the Emergency Procautions Scheme or in ambulance work. There are quite a lot of you studenta 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 round there, have you not? —No, I am all alone in this Decision was reserved
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23993, 17 June 1941, Page 6
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196REFUSAL TO HELP New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23993, 17 June 1941, Page 6
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