§ Sir W. RUTHERFORDasked the Minister of National Service whether he is aware of the dissatisfaction caused by the National Service representatives constantly appealing against exemptions granted by local tribunals to one-man business cases; and whether he will issue instructions that such exemptions are not to be appealed whenever the exemption has been granted unanimously?
§ Mr. BECKI am not aware that there is any general dissatisfaction of the kind suggested. The fullest and most careful instructions have been given to tribunals by the Local Government Board in conjunction with the Ministry of National Service with the object of mitigating the hardships inevitably suffered by proprietors of one-man businesses in time of war, but I am not prepared to restrict the discretion of the National Service representatives in exercising a right of appeal, which is equally exercisable by the man applying for exemption.