MILITARY SERVICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24826, 28 January 1942, Page 4

MILITARY SERVICE

CLOTHING CUTTER’S APPEAL OPPOSED BY FELLOW WORKER (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 27. An unusual position arose to-day when a worker’s appeal against military service was opposed by a fellow worker. The appellant was Richard Gib Henry Rogers, clothing cutter, the ground for the appezl being conscientious objection to lulling. The appeal was supported by the appellant’s employers' Messrs Greer and Son, Ltd., on the ground that the man was essential to them in war work. _ Rogers said he was willing to do non-combatant service in New Zealand. He realised that the making of military uniforms was taking part in the war, but that was his occupation. At this stage Arthur Joseph Dixon said he wished to oppose the appeal on behalf of the men with whom he and the appellant worked. One fellow worker had a son who had returned from the war minus his left arm, and the men did not like Rogers’s remarks on the war in the presence of this man. After questions had been answered by Mr Dixon, the firm’s appeal for Rogers was withdrawn, and the board dismissed the reservist’s appeal.