APPEALS FROM FIRST BALLOT

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23177, 14 November 1940, Page 5

APPEALS FROM FIRST BALLOT

—*— COMMITTEE NEARING END OF WORK SPECIAL BOARD TO HEAR CONSCIENCE CASES The hearing of the 512 appeals by men drawn in the first ballot for territorial service was almost completed by the appeal board of the Christchurch Manpower Committee yesterday. The committee has still to deal with about 60 cases in which decision has been reserved, and between 20 and .10 cases where the medical report is not yet completed. Appeals on conscientious grounds have not been heard by the committee. The 47 appeals lodged on these grounds will be heard by a special board not yet set up. At its next public sitting, to-morrow week, the committee expects to deal with most of the outstanding cases, and is also likely to deaj with the first of the appeals against the second ballot.

The board consisted of Messrs J. S. Barnett (chairman), S. L. Wright, and G. T. Thurston. Captain J. D. Hutchison represented the military authorities. The cases dealt with were:—

Harold Turner, a farm hand; appeal by employer,.. M. E. Jenkins, on the grounds of hardship and public interest. The employer staled that he had a farm of 800 acres, near Courtenay, where he had 100 acres of wheat, and 90 acres of peas and other crops. Last year he fattened 5000 lambs and 60 pigs. The farm was worked by himself, his 18-year-old son, who was a volunteer in the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, and Turner. He asked that Turner be left free until April 1. The appeal was dismissed, Turner not to be called up until April 1. John Bramley Helps, farmer and shearer: appeal by Director of National Service. Helps, with his brother, worked a 1436-acre Banks Peninsula property, carrying 2200 sheep, 1800 lambs, 150 cattle, and on which 30 acres of cocksfoot were harvested.

The appeal was adjourned for further inquiries. Students’ Appeals

Neil Watson, agricultural student; appeal by director of Canterbury Agricultural College on the ground of hardship. It was asked that Watson be not called up until the completion of his college course at the end of December.

The appeal was dismissed, Watson not to be called up before January 1. . James A. Pollock, an agricultural student; on the grounds of undue hardship. Pollock was a volunteer for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, not yet called up. He had also applied for service with the Navy. He wished to have his calling up deferred until after his November examinations. It was stated that Pollock's name should not have been in the ballot. , Captain Hutchison said that as Pollock had enlisted for the Expeditionary Force, he was almost certain to be called in the next draft. If he were not to be called up for some months, he might be put into a territorial unit. The appeal was dismissed. Neil Leonard Weenink. a welder; appeal by employer, Anderson’s, Ltd., on ground of undue hardship and public interest. Weenink, a volunteer for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, classed as unfit, had been discharged unfit. It was staled that Weenink’s name should not have been in the ballot. . The appeal was adjourned sine die. Frederick Pierson, a master butcher; appeal on grounds of hardship, originally heard on October 23. The appeal was dismissed. Pierson not to be called up before January 1. William Keith Brears, a farmer; the appeal, heard previously, was dismissed, Brears not to be called up before April 1. , Lloyd G. Fowler, depot manager and travelling representative; appeal by employer, Reid (N.Z.) Rubber Mills. Ltd., on the ground of undue hardship and the public interest. It was stated that Fowler and another man were the company’s only employees in the South Island. The assistant had already been called up. Time was asked to enable replacements to be arranged. The appeal was dismissed. Fowler not to be called up before February 1. Joseph Kerr, an office assistant on the civilian staff at Burnham camp; appeal by Director of National Service on the grounds of public interest. A postponement sine die was granted. Appeals Dismissed Clarence Reginald Philip Burt, a waiter employed at Burnham Camp; on the grounds of "not being a member of the reserve, etc.” Burt claimed that he was a pelt grader in a freezing works during the season. There was no appeal on his behalf by the army. The appeal was dismissed. Eric Phillis, an engineer; appeal by his mother. Mrs G. Phillis, a widow, on the grounds of undue hardship. It was stated that Mrs Phillis received £6 10s a month «ge benefit, and that her son gave her £1 3s a week. She had no other means of support. Captain Hutchison said she would receive 14s a week from her son’s army pay, and in addition an allowance from the army of up to 10s 6d to bring her total income to £2 10s. She would be no worse off, and might be better off. as she would not have to board her son. The appeal was dismissed. William Timothy O’Gorman, a builder; appeal by his mother, Mrs Mary O’Gorman, on the grounds, of hardship, originally heard on October 23. The appeal was dismissed. Appeal Granted Willigm Alfred Mills, retired; appeal on the ground'of not being a member of the reserve. It was stated that a mistake had been made in Wellington in the entry of the appellant's age. His birth certificate showed he was born in 1886 and not 1896. The appeal was granted. An appeal by Byfield Industries. Ltd,, on behalf of Martin Jamieson Lewitt, was withdrawn by the firm. • Temporarily Unfit Adjournments sine die were made of the following appeals of men originally classed as permanently unfit but since regraded as temporarily unfit:— Francis Trevor Tibbetts. Charles Neville Gebbie. Alfred William Boucher, Ronald Henry Tullett. Reginald George Kimber, Lloyd Arthur John Wigzell. Thomas Edward Maxwell Harper. Thomas Edward O’Loughlin, Ronald Galletly, Ronald James Mackay, Colin Courtenay McLenhan. William Albert Henry, John R. Hinchcy. Ronald Miller, Robert Thomas Hanlon. Walter Mann. Alfred Mervine John O’Malley, and Michael Joseph Lynskey.