"I DON'T CARE."
WHY APPELLANT VOLUNTEERED. (Auckland "Star.") Peter J. Fee, labourer, Ponsonby, who appealed for exemption from military service on Wednesday, on tho ground that he was the sole support of his mother, also said he had religious objections to taking lifo. He had volunteered and had been rejected, and he now suffered from pleurisy. Mr Pine: Then why did you enlist? —I knew I would be rejected, and T 'knew if I did not volunteer I would not be able to get work. The Chairman : I suppose you don't caro who wins the war?—lt doesn't mako much .difference to * me. I'vo got nothing against the Germans. Are you pro-German ?—No. Mr Pine : You are a bright specimen of a young New Zealander.—Oh, well, I don't care much about people's opinions. In reply to a further question appellant said he would fight to defend himself, but did not believe in fighting for others who were " keeping him down " in the country. The Chairman: The appeal is dismissed.
Appellant: I don't care; I will he all right. There are other ways.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12059, 14 July 1917, Page 8
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