FORMS READY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 234, 2 October 1940, Page 8

FORMS READY.

MILITARY SERVICE.

QUESTION OF APPEAL.

COMMITTEE APPOINTED.

The members of the Manpower Committee in the Auckland area which will hear appeals, at least in their initial etages, regarding men called up for military service, will be Mr. H. A. Anderson, Auckland city solicitor and Mayor of Mount Albert "(chairman). Mr. A. G. Menzies, a city business man. and Mr. W. J. Cuthbert, vice-president of the Federation of Labour and president of the Auckland Labour Representation Committee. All were members of the Man-power Advisory Committee, which had been in operation for some months prior to their present appointment.

It should be noted that the Auckland Man-power Committee's territory doc* not include the whole of Auckland city and suburban area. The Waitemata county and places like Henderson and Glen Eden are included in the Whangarei area.

All appeals from persons residing in the Auckland area should be addressed to Mr. L. N. Harris, secretary of the Han-power Coniiiil.tee, 206, British Chambers, High Street, P.O. Box 1714. Mr. Harris' telephone, which is not yet is 32-555. Men called up in areas other than the Auckland area should address their appeals to the secretaries of the manpower committee in the district where the appellant resides. f Committee's Power. The man-power committees are authorised to allow appeals only in cases relating to status, that is, where a man has been wrongly included in the ballot. All other appeals can be dealt with by adjourninent only. For instance, all appeals on the ground of conscientious objection will be referred by the committee to an Armed Forces Appeal Board. No announcement of the personnel of this body has. yet been made. The Director of National Service, Mr. J. S. Hunter, is authorised to lodge appeals where the calling up of a man can be regarded as being contrary to the public interest. Forme of appeal are available at all post offices. In this form the applicant is required to state the grounds. Those grounde are: (a) That when called up for sen ice he is not a member of the reserve or of the class or division called up; (b) that -by reason of his occupation the fact of his being called up for service is contrary to the public interest; (c) that by domestic circumstances his calling up would be the cause of undue hardship to himself or dependents; and (d) that he conscientiously objects to serving. Employers, parents, dependents, and so on, have also the right to make application in individual cases. Position of Clergymen. There is nothing in the regulations which automatically exempts any particular class of person other than those wrongly called up. In all other cases the only relief is by wny of postpone-1 ment of service. It will be noticed, for example, that a number of clergymen, including at least one priest, have been called in the first ballot.

Xo announcement has yet been made by Cabinet regarding the attitude to euch cases, *ut it is presumed that similar action will be taken to that of the Great War. The Cabinet then permitted appeals from the heads of various religious communities regarding theological students, ministers of religion and others similarly affected.

All hearings of appeals will be in public except in particular cases, where the committee decides, owing to special circumstances, to have the hearin" in private.

L'nleSA tbey have other special "round* on which they seek exemption, it doe's not appear necessary for men who are suffering from some serious physical disability to make an appeal. Thev wifi automatically be rejected by the medical board.

The names of men drawn for territorial service appear on page 3.