SINGLE MEN FIRST

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 181, 2 August 1941, Page 9

SINGLE MEN FIRST

MILITARY SERVICE PROCEDURE FOR APPEALS (By Telegraph.— Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The announcement that married men will not be called until steps have been taken to ensure that all single men who can be released for the armed forces have been called up was made last evening by the Minister of National Service, the Hon. a. Semple. Adjournments previously granted would be reviewed by the appeal boards as quickly as possible. The onus of appealing rested primarily upon the men called up or his employer. "The Government does not intend to depart from its policy of declining to regard any industry or occupation as completely or permanentlv reserved," Mr. Semple said The only one way by which postponement of the military service of a fit man could be procured was by an appeal to an appeal board and all cases were dealt with on their merits I here was no authority for the exercise of Ministerial o'r official discretion on individual appeals. The Minister said employers should arrange to ensure that they were informed of employees drawn in the ballots, and if it was/ necessary to seek a postponement of service they should lodge appeals withrLift n d^ s of the issue of th e Gazette calling up the employee In special circumstances an appeal board could accept jurisdiction in Sher mom P h PealS lodged Within a ,

™>J has , be that if appeals against territorial service have been made to the manpower committees the facts adduced at the hearing may be referred to the Crown representative of the appeal board so he may have available some £ter ry Cade, " said the Min "

fnr' S £ m f e * im - es n na PP e ns, perhaps for patriotic reasons, that appeals wh? m 0t i 0 - ged b l em P'°yers of men to ri? • - 1S m the nat 'onal interest an«™ "! n clvlhan occupations. In hv P Jh£ r £- te C . aSes a PP ea 's are lodged by the Director of National Service in order that the circumstance, may be adequately reviewed bv the appeal board. Secretaries of" the manpower committees also und-rtake an q nP^ e f mt ° P? rtic »'ar cases which appear to require special investiga-