APPEAL BOARD SITTINGS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24627, 7 June 1941, Page 11

APPEAL BOARD SITTINGS

TO THE EDITOb

Sir,—A series of letters in the Daily Times of June 4 questions the findings of our splendid Appeal Boards. The writers have failed to realise that anyone except those who talk of " equality of sacrifice' must always realise—that war is not, and cannot, be fair. Our duty to our country demands our clear admission that our lives and those of our families are at the disposal of the Government. The Government and the gentlemen who make up the appeal boards have been reluctant apparently to make this plain. It is not for us, or for the Farmers' Union either, to ask to criticise or to know. If we spend cur time in grudging someone else his good fortune instead of taking what is coming to ui we must lose the war. German war u total war; it is taking them not onlv round the Champ do Mars, but also round the world. We may as well decide to shoot our conscientious objectors (not for moral reasons, but pour encourager les outres), to muzzle our Farmers' Union, and to wage war on the Gcrmar plan The alternative is defeat.—l am. etc., Signet Sawney. Queenstown, June 4.