Director's Appeals Hold No Special Significance

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1942, Page 2

Director's Appeals Hold No Special Significance

Auckland, Aug. 26. "When an appeal is lodged in the name of the Director of National Service, it does not mean that the case is supported by the director," said the Crown represeptative on the No. 2 (Auckland) Armed Forces Appeal Board, Mr. L. N. Harris, las.t night. Two appellants who came before the board were under the impression that the fact that their appeals had heen lodged in the name of the director lent the cases a special significance. Mr. Harris explained that the only way in which appeals which had not been lodged in the prescribed time could be brougbt before the board them to be lodged by the Directo^^H National Service. This was nothing than a formality which clothed the hcfl^H with the jurisdiction for hearing xliB appeal which it would otherwise lack. The onus of establishing a case to the satisfaction of the board still rested on the person seeking relief. "The sooner this matter is cleared up the better," said the chairman of the board, Mr. I. J. Goldstine. "It is as well that the public should realise the position with regard to appeals in the name of the Director of National Service. Such cases are judged, not by the fact that they hear the director s . name, but on the evidence produced by the person seeking relief."