APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23414, 22 August 1941, Page 5

APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

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CASES OP TEMPORARILY UNFIT

Appeals by farmers and farm workers were amon ß the cases dealt with by the Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday. A number of appeals on behalf of Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy were adjourned sine die on the ground of the public interest. 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 appeals were heard:— Frederick John Trott, farmer, appeal on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—Dismissed, reservist not to be called up before January 1, William Aloysius Hartnell, _ farmer, appeal on grounds of the public interest and -undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die on ground of medical grading. Edwin Joseph Langley, hairdresser, appeal on ground of undue hardship. —Withdrawn.

Robert Alexander Thompson, coppersmith, appeal by O. H. Oakley, employer, on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die on ground of the public intereSHubert Rutherford Warren, farm hand, appeal by D. H. Warren, employer, on grounds' of the public interest and undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die on ground of the public intereSHerbert Oswald Bilton, farmer, appeal on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die, appeal to be reviewed in January. Nicholas Basil Parsons Turner, printer • and stationer, appeal by Turners, Ltd., employers, on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—Dismissed, reservist net to be called up before January 1. John Herbert Cfossan, storekeepers assistant, co-appellant H. S. Claughton, employer, on grounds of the public interest and undue- hardship.—Dismissed, reservist not to be called up before February 1. The co-appellant’s appeal was withdrawn. _• Walter George Waites, poultryfarmer, appeal on grounds of the public interest and conscientious objection. —Allowed on ground of conscientious objection, appeal on ground of the public interest' adjourned sirte die. Robert Henry Harrison, dairy farmer, appeal on ground of undue hardship. Dismissed, reservist not to be called up before October 1. Gregory Eliott, chaffcutting contractor, co-appeallant A. Eliott, parent, on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die on ground of the public interest, appeal to be reviewed in January. A condition Imposed by the board was- that reservist, who does shearing on contract, should take every shearing contract offered to him. or he could obtain. . A proper record of the number of sheds worked by reservist, and his tally, are to be kept. . John - Robert Kent, tractor driver, appeal by Director of National Service on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.-Dismissed. Patrick James de Valera Daly, farmer, appeal on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die* on ground of the public interest, . _ • , John Livingston Brown, sheepfarmer, appeal on ground of undue hardship.Dismissed, reservist not to be called up before January 1, , . , Archie Geoffrey Hewitt, farm hand, appeal by Mrs A. S. Hewitt, employer, on grounds of the public interest and (indue hardship.—Adjourned sine die, to be heard when a brother’s appeal comes before the board. - Stewart McFarlane Mackenzie, shepherd. appeal by A. C. Wright, employer, on grounds of the public interest and undue hardship,—Withdrawn. Leigh Granville. Hart, poultry farmer, appeal on (rounds of the public

Interest and undue hardship.—Adjourned sine die, appeal to be reviewed in three months. Harold Novis. orchard,ist,.. appeal by J. Novis, employer, on grpunds of the public interest and undue hardship.— Adjourned sine die on ground of the public interest. ' . Thomas Victor Ferris, leather finisher, appeal on ground of conscientious objection.—Adjourned sine die on ground of medical grading, reservist to be transferred to the territorial forces. , , Bishop Brodie and Archbishop O'Shea appealed on the ground of the public interest for the following Roman Catholic clergy:— Eugene Spur Way, Philip Laurence Patrick Bailey, Austin James Montague, Francis Patrick Keogh, Owen Thomas Lynch, Marist Brother teachers, and Gerald Patrick Gill, Brian McDiarmid and Timothy O’Brien, priests.—Adjourned sine die. On the grounds of the public interest Archbishop West-Watson appealed for the following Anglican clergy:—John Stanley Heathcote Perkins,. Colin Douglas Charles Caswell, Roger Frederick Norton Thompson, Peter Hamilton Tovey, Kenneth Schollar, John Dakers Froud, Basil Hosking Williams, Harold Geoffrey Norris, Robert John Witty, Bertrand Cecil Holden.—Adjourned sine die. In a reserved decision, the board adjourned sine die the appeals made by Albert Edward Rentoul, maker of pyrotechnic equipment, and his employers, Byfteld Products, Ltd., on the ground of the public interest. The following appeals were adjourned sine die, reservists being temporarily unfit:—Legg, Lewis Benjamin; Legg, Wilfred Downey; Basher, Osmond William; Close, James Henry; Louden, Charles McGregor; Mitchell, John; Prebble, William Frederick; McLean, James Douglas; Avery, John William; Silvey, Ernest Norman; More, Robert Wilson; Carpenter, Leonard Llewellyn; Jennings, Robert Smith: Giles, Frederick Launcelot Benjamin; Lang, David Charles; Ainsley, lan James; Dcmicheli, Carl Joshua; McDowell, Robert Alexander; Gorman, Reginald Francis; Timms, George William; Toogood, Wesley Edgar; Park, George Thomas; Jory, Neville Jack; Evans, Llewellyn Lloyd; Baldwin, William Harold; McKessar, James Clive; Scott, Andrew Arthur; McConnel, Robert Henry; Moore, Gordon Raymond; David, Conrad Frederick Adam; Cook, Ronald McAlister; Martin, Charles Leonard; Bransden, Norman Frank; Hadaway, Hilton Hedley; McSweeney, Daniel Brick; Price, William Alfred: McCormick. Keith Campbell; Keane, Thomas; Clarke, Halkett Augustus; Watson, Hedley Joseph; Chatterton, Gordon Arthur; Chitham, Charles Gilbert; Morgan, Thomas Suffield; Lamb, Henry Eric; Lyon, Douglas Colin; Hogg, Robert; Ross, Llewellyn William John; Malcolm, George Brington; Churchward, John Charles; Moriarty, Robert Terence; Fisher, Raymond Cecil; Mason, Frank Reginald Birdwood; Fox, Lionel Seddon; Cherry, Owen Mark; Kirner, Joseph; Dawson, Robert Ashley; Lilley, Raymond William; Fuller, Edward George; Chaney, Colin Ross; Mackenzie, Roderick William; Gebbie, Reginald William Keith; Dodge, Harold Leonard; Thompson, Norman: Leybourne, Robert George Francis; Clegg, Horace Sydney; Clegg, Nathan Charles; Cherry, Alfred William; Hibbard, Leslie Bruce; Galpin, John Edwin David; Hawken, Mark Allan;-Clinton, Arthur Joseph; Rainey, Alistair Grattan; Rapley, George Law. rence; Boyd, Thomas Allan; Marriott, Launcelot: Abernethy, Kenneth George; Callan, Alfred Eugene; Dixon, Francis Kura; Kirwan. Edward Leo; Cox, Vivian Stanley; Tulley, Alexanj der Raynor; Robb, Henry Jamqs; Talbot, Edward George; Douglas, Eric Beatty; Johnson, Leslie Thomas; Newman, Edward Spencer; Trott, Frank Leicester; McCormick, Dunlop William Gryer; Scott, William James; Morriss, Arthur Robert; Logan, William Gallagher;- Black, Garfield Dave; Tunnicliffe, Lewis Allen; Neilson, Reginald George; Morgan. John Christopher; Cole. Leslie Claude; Krammcr, Leslie Linaker; Collier, Hilary Kermatt; Henderson, Sidney Harold; Austin, Archibald Edward; Hewetson, Thomas Walter; .Cameron, Angus Hellyer;

Jones, Richard Nevill; Silcock, Ashley Noel; Bierwirth, Archibald Gordon; Cheesman, Lewis Charles; Douglas, Alexander Hedley: Heveldt, John Charles; Mclntyre, John James; Greenlees, Robert; Meharry. Cecil Keith; Binzegger, Clemency Joseph; Mullan, Robert; Ferguson, William Hugh; Campbell, Thomas Gardener; Murphy, James Patrick; Harvey, Don; Francis, Errol Henry; Bottcher, Bert; Winton, Wallis.Alexander; Berry, Michael Barron; Fayen, Stephen; Holden, Samuel Leonard; Boyes, Norman Milton Ray; Ransby. Frederick Walter; Winter, Keith Ronald: Mason, George Henry; McCormick. Leo John; Bensemann, Geoffrey Christian; Field, Alfred Edward; Oates, William James Richard: Weir, John Francis; Lammas, Law; rence Leonard; Quinn, James; McKendry, Denis William Joseph; Haines, James Herbert; Burrows, Gustav Samuel; Chambers, Edwin Thomas; Byrne, Edward Francis; King, Trevor Carlisle; Rose, James Edward; Wafer, Ronald Ramage; Prince, Roland Clifford; Bourke, William Joseph; Parkinson, Henry Dale; Letyam, Janies; Duncan, Clifford Patrick; Symes, Thomas Henry; Buchanan, Kenneth Alexander: Patterson, John Kenneth; Dense, Ernest William; Marsden, George Bennett; Pattison, Walter Leslie; Devlin, Patrick Hugh; Butler, William James; Hansen, George Cheverton; Atkinson, John; Lee, Thomas William; Shaw, Ellis; Munro, Stewart George; Sundbyc, Charles Edwin; Ireland, Raymond William. 1 The following appeals were struck out, reservists being permanently unfit:—Theodore John Southon, Percy Le Vavaseur, Percy Combridge, George Burton, Trevor Walter Jones, James Robert Fraser, Vernon Frank Wall, William Lynskey, Baden Tasman Rayner, Ernest Armour Kelvin Hardaker, George Butler Freeth, Edward Vincent Jones. James Kennedy McKay, Thomas Gould, Samuel James Deakin.

UNIVERSITY STUDENT’S APPEAL

(An appeal by Keith Raymond Newson, a student of Canterbury Univers-ity-College, which was heard by the Armed Forces Appeal Bonrd on August 19, was adjourned sine die on the ground of the appellant’s medical grading. The ground for the appeal, as set down at the hearing was undue hardship, but the appellant has written to "The Press” stating that all he sought was a postponement of service until after the university examinations in November. This was not indicated at the hearing.