APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23413, 21 August 1941, Page 8

APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

RADIO TECHNICIANS’ . CASES

DECISIONS AT YESTERDAY’S HEARING

Appeals for; radio technicians employed by the National - and Commercial . Broadcasting Services, and men working ,on munitions • contracts. and the manufacture of ; gloves .j for the Royal New Zealand Air Force, were among the cases dealt-with by the Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday. Mr F. F. Reid, S.M., presided, and with him were Mr G. M. Hall and Mr A. H. McKane. Mr W. F. Tracy represented the Crown.

The following cases were dealt with: Thomas William Williams, farmer, appeal on grounds of status, and the public interest and undue hardship.— Allowed.

Walter Herbert Terry, greaser, appeal on ground of \ undue hardship.— Adjourned sine die on ground of medical grading. • Lawrence Patrick Cowie,. trucker, appeal by Blackwater, Mines, employers, on ground of the public interest.—Adjourned sine die cn the ground of medical , grading. Alexander George Brash, veterinarian, appeal by Director, of National Service, on ground of the public interest. —Adjourned sine die. William Clayton Lee, technical trainee, Frederick Joseph Jacobs, technician; Bruce Gunn Henderson, senior technician; Reginald Halsey Addison, technical trainee; lan Fletcher Baird, technician; all employees of the National Broadcasting Service, appeals by the Director of National Service, on ground of the public interest.—Adjourned sine die. Vernon- Ellis Robinson, technician, employed by the National Commercial Broadcasting Service, appeal by Director of National Service, on ground of

Herbert Joffre Hood, hosiery mechanic, appeal by Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company, employers, on ground of the public interest.—Adjourned sine die. Douglas Charles Fox, packer and driver, appeal by Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company, employers, on ground of the public interest. —Dismissed, reservist not to be called up before January 1. William Edwards, textile mechanic, appeal by Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Company, employers, on.ground of the pyblic interest:—Withdrawn.. Douglas Raigh Herman, machineshop foreman, appeal by . Scott, Bros., Ltd., employers, on ground; of . the public interest and undue hardship;— Adjourned sine; die on ground' of the public interest.

• Raymond William Merrin, apprentice fitter , and turner, appeal by Booth, Macdonald and Company, employers, on ground of the public interest.—Adjourned sine die. Clifford Ralph Toombs, fitter and turner, appeal by Atkinson and Son, Ltd., employers, on ground of the public interest.—Adjourned sine die, appeal to be reviewed in January. John Edwin Bedelph, fitter, appeal by F. C. Penfold and Company, Ltd., employers, on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die on ground of the pub-lic-interest. Thomas Daniel Holder, .apprentice moulder, appeal by Alloy Steel <N.Z.), Ltd., employers, on ground of the public interest.—Dismissed. The chairman stated that Holder- had been accepted for the Ait Force, and was, keen., to serve. 1 The board was-going to grant his request.

; Lester Alfred Archibald; Pike,, machine moulder, appeal by Alloy Steel (N.Z.), Ltd., on grounds of, the public interest .-and undue . hardship.—Adjourned sine die. , -

, Walter Frederick* Tyerman, electrical mechanic, appeal by Alloy Steel (N.Z.), Ltd., employersj.on.the grounds: of public interest and undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die. Malcolm Martin Wallcroft, steel dresser, appeal by Alloy Steel (N.Z.), Ltd., employers, on the grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.— Adjourned sine die.

Ronald Patrick Commons, engineer, and James Christian: Fairbairn Scott, milking machinist, appeals by New Zealand Grinding Gear , Company, employers, on ground of the public interest.—Adjourned sine die. . Ronald Dawson Briggs, fitter, appeal by Director of National Service, appeal on ground of the public interest.—Dismissed, reservist not to be called up before January 1. Thomas Hector Nedrick Baxter, appeal by Andersons, Ltd., employers, on the grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—Withdrawn. Allan David Guest, apprentice boilermaker, appeal by Andersons, Ltd., employers, on ground of the public interest.—Adjourned sine die. Thomas Kirner, finisher, appeal by Suckling Brothers, Ltd., employers, on ground of the public interest.—Adjourned sine die. Leslie Harold White, boot employee, appeal by Director of National Service, on ground of the public interest. —Dismissed; reservist not to be called up before December 1, Frank Michael Daley, glove cutter,. appeal tiy E. E. Weston, employer,' on grounds of public Interest and undue sine die on-ground-of the public interest. Gavin Hugh McGregor, -machine

operator, appeal by 1 Director of National Service, on ground of the public interest.—Dismissed, reservist not to be called up before January 1. John Hogan-, welter, and Desmond John Fagan, boot finisher, appeals by M. O’Brien and Company, Ltd., employers, on the ground of the public interest.—The appeal for Fagan was dismissed, reservist not to be called up before January 1, while Hogan’s appeal Was adjourned sine die. George Parris, ’ shearing contractor, appeal by Director of National Service, on ground of, status.—Allowed. Frederick Weston Miller and Desmond Hurford Hancock, .typewriter mechanics, appeals by -Armstrong and Springhall. Ltd., employers, on grounds - of the- public interest and undue hardship. .Hancock also appealed on -the ground ■ of, conscientious objection. —Adjourned, sine .die on ground, of the public interest, reservists to be transferred to the Territorial forces. Hancock’s appeal was struck out for Want of prosecution. > ■ • . John 1 Henry Reed, farm hand, appeal by Mrs A. M. Reed, employer, bn the grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die. , ! Maurice Bernard Stuart, blacksmith’s assistant, appeal by H. C. Stuart, employer, on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.— Withdrawn. . ■; Henry Hill Kingham, student, coappellant Dr. H. G. Denham, on grounds of the public interest and undue sine die, appeal to be reviewed in January. 1 Ronald Oeorge Avelin Moore, farm hand,: appeal by C. R. Moore, employer, on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die bn ground of the public interest. ; Alfred deal Wendall Lawrence, school teacher, appeal on ground of Undue hardship.—Withdrawn. Edward lan Ellis, student teacher, appeal on . ground of undue hardship. —Dismissed, reservist not to be called up before January 1. William Keith Faulkner, wireless operator, appeal by Director of National Service, on ground of the public; interest.-*-Adjourned sine die. Roland-Herbert Kendall, farm hand, appeal by H. Kendall, employer, on grounds, of the public interest and undue hardship.—Dismissed, reservist not to be called up before February 1. Herbert Henry Harris, farmer, appeal by Director of National Service, on ground of the public interest.—Adjourned sine die. Archibald Baxter, watersider, appeal against territorial service on ground of conscientious objection.—No appearance, struck out.

Leonard William Folley, joiner, appeal on ground of the public interest. —Withdrawn. Edward Warwick - Newton, civil engineer, employed by the Public Works Department, appeal by Director of •National. Service, ,on ground of the public interest.—Dismissed, reservist not to be called up before December 1. . ' Thomas Alexander Strachan* testing room electriciaii, appeal by Director of National Service, on the ground of the public interest.—Withdrawn. Ronald Stewart Herbert Mogridge, telegraph mechanic, appeal by Director of National Service, on ground of the public interest.—Adjourned sine die. Henry James McDonald, fire aiarm mechanic,. appeal by Vigilant Automatic Alarm Company, employers, on grounds of. the public interest and undue hardship.—As the appeal was

lodged late, the board exercised no jurisdiction, but recommended that reservist should not be called up before November 1.

The following reserved decisions were given:— Donald Vogan, appeal by Director of National Service on ground of the public interest. —Adjourned sine die. Kenneth George Cameron, farm labourer and chain slaughterman, appeals by reservist. D. Cameron, parent, and New Zealand Refrigerating Company, Ltd., on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—The company’s appeal was adjourned sine die, and the others were dismissed. Leonard John Watts—Adjourned sine die.

The following cases were dealt with by the board at Tuesday’s sitting: —• Ronald Claude Tighe, metal spinner, Clifford Ellis, electrical assembly foreman, Louis Pritchard, metal spinner, John Cursons, chromium plater and polisher, appeals by H. C. Urlwin, Ltd., employers, on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship. Tighe also appealed on similar grounds. The company was granted leave to withdraw an appeal for Kenneth Hugh Mc> ■Donald, and an appeal for Leonard George Hadler was allowed on the ground of status. The appeal for Pritchard was adjourned sine die, reservist to be transferred to the territorials. The appeal for Cursons was dismissed, reservist not to be called up before November 1. Tighe’s appeal was dismissed, and the company's appeal for him was adjourned sine die, reservist to be transferred to the territorials.