APPEALS FOR EXEMPTION.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Before the Second Military Service Board, a farm, laborer appealed. He stated that he had five stepsons at the front. One had been killed, another was badly wounded and was returning, and two others hod also been wounded. Appellant was married m May last. Ilia chairman said the record was a great one for a mother of sons, but he did not know that appellant was entitled to ; a great deal of consideration on account: of what the sons had done. Tli© appel- i hint's wife said she had been engaged to him for four years, and they had got married to allow the youngest eon to go to the front. She would not mind appellant going- if her health was good. Decision was reserved, the chairman remarking that the case was a most unusual one. ' ' On the ground that it would' be against the 'public interest €o esompel them, to serve, two fire brigadesmen had their cases adjourned' sine di«.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14285, 30 April 1917, Page 6
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