FORTY APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23495, 25 November 1941, Page 10

FORTY APPEALS

—:♦ — COLLECTIVE TR&DflMgl OF TERRITORIALS * -V,; l * I DECISIONS OF MANPOWER : COMMITTEE < Forty appeals in respect o£ men, cafied up for collective territorial 1 January and February were heard by the I Christchurch Manpower Committee yes- ? terday. Most of the appeals were by em. ' ployers seeking postponement of their employees’ ..training to the second training period In March and April. Many were farmers wishing to retain labour for the harvest. J . VjMr J. S. Barnett presided, were Messrs B. L. Wright and Caw, members of the committee. Xne de- , cisions were as follows: A G. Duthie and Ronald Grieve, appeal for "each by the International Harvester Company. Duthie was described as a • warehouse assistant, and Grieve as a store- r man and driver, and a postponement ito "• March 30 was sought for each.—The ap- ,i peal for Duthie was dismissed, and . Grieve’s training was postponed to the | second period. j Arnold Standeven, shop assistant, ap- l peal by Stills, Ltd., Hornby, for poet- ! ponement to second period.—Dismissed; - Work on Hanmer Hospital I Lloyd Penwell Jones, apprentice caiy \ penter, appeal by V. J. Molr, Ltd., build- 5 ers The firm said that it was engaged,'on : urgent alteration work at the Queen.Mary i Hospital, Hanmer, to enable provision. to ; be made for a returned soldiers’ vpca- v tional centre. A postponement to the end : of February was sought.—Dismissed, «. William Thomas Abbott, farm hand, ap- 5 peal by W. H. Abbott for a postponement v to May 31.— Excused attendance in bote j periods, the case to be reviewed In April. : Lionel Oram, auctioneers storeman, ap- ? peal by C. E. Jones, Ltd. —Postponed ,jo i second period. , : . • - H. Manson, paint sprayer, appeal- by Plaster industries.—Dismissed. j M Pavelka, farm hand, appeal against * training in January and February.-Post- ‘ poned to second period. - . > Allan Walter Pearce, appeal by the . Massey-Harris Company. Ltd seeking i postponement to March.—Dismissed. v Roy Wilson. salesman. by Carpet Import Company, Ltd.—Dismissed, j Defence Contracts -. 5 . ,J William Charles Yorston, joiner, appeal > by Dominion Builders Supplies, LkL, j, seeking a postponement to March 3. Itoe fern said that this man was employed on iotaerv for defence works in which, lha; I firm was a sub-contractor. -Postponed,Jo , appeal by Dominion Builders’ { Supplies, Ltd., for L. N. Candy, an appreh- ■ • P-W- } farmer, apped by , P«ie Gould, Guinness, Ltd.—Excused ttaining for the first period, the care-4o ? be reviewed in the first week in Febru- “ 1 George Howell, a carpenter, '• anneal against training between January ,; f and March 3. He said he was waiting to appear before the selection committee for the Air Force, and was prepared totratoin a later period if the Air Force J did not accept him. —Dismissed, pn ihe understanding that the appellant would be . released if accepted by the Air Force, ■, Conway Stanley Merrin, farm band, appeal by F. Merrin, jun.. for exemption. { Herbert A. Patterson, farm hand, appeal by John Patterson for postponement till i - March.—Allowed. jf W. L. Duggan, clerk, appeal by, em- J ployers, Reese Bros,, against hls bdng re- f quired to complete his three, months t training.—Allowed, a postponement of Ml- ; lectlve training to the second period.being ) also granted. \ Harvest Labour - ; Claude Edward Stubbs.^ appeal by C.B. ( Stubbs‘for postponement till after me j harvest.— Postponed to second Rpriod. j R D. Gulliver, farm hand, appeal by - 4 F. Gulliver for postponement till after the, harvest.— Postponed to second period. -, - Maurice Thomas McGoverln, tractob* . driver, appeal by J. C. Loe for postpone, | ment—Dismissed. ■ . .‘it It* 3 Harry Percival Vette, farm hanaSSMT l peal by P. Jesson, employer, for JwsTV f ponement till after the harvest.-pi^| Redmond Patrick Joseph Newell, fwm 4 J hand, appeal by J. F. l i nloyer, for release from training in Janu- - | ary. February, and March,— Adjourned Samuel Percy Greenslade. farmer, ap- , s peal by employer. S, Greenslade. for post- , f ponement till after the harvest.—Post- t poned to second period. t Roltorivbuteher; appeal by W. ris and' Sons, employers, for. egbnptjon , £ from training In January and February.— Dismissed. . ... • (. Roy Douglas Chenery, orchardist, ap-, * peal by employers, the Papanui Fruit and ; Storage Company, Ltd., for postponement, >; , to March I.—Dismissed. . ■ f "i ' Lawrence Herbert Neale, painter, appeal - for postponement.—Postponed to second - George Burrows, market g«- * dener. appeal by C. A. Hussey, employer. The appeUant asked that Burrowssperlod - of training be postponed to Apm si.—, -j. Dismissed, : .* Appeal for Wool Sorter Ronald Albert Thomas Jones, Wool ■ sorter, appeal against collective training .s.■ by the Kaputone Wool Scouring Company, s employers.—Allowed. < Robert Gilpin Montgomery, general | labourer, appeal by R. Hampton, cm- <■ ployer, for postponement.—Dismissed. - ». Herbert Clifford Bloor, farm hand, ap- | peal by ». C. Meyer, for postponement | ; till the winter months.—Adjourned,, to | enable Meyer to make an effort to. replace Bloor before January. W Alan Steventon Dobson, farm s peal by p. G. Amyes. employer.—Allowed, j Eric Pullan, canister maker, appeal by j J. Gadsden and Company, Ltd., employers.. t —Dismissed. I ~ V Colin Robert Gibbs, farm hand, appeal t by H. T. J. Gibbs for postponement till ?. after the harvest.—Dismissed. ■ • i i Roderick James Schimanski, glass bevel- . ler, appeal by W. Thom, employer, for ?, postponement. to second ,| Pe Dartd V. Bateman, a painter, appealfor 4 exemption from the two months collec- ; tive training. Bateman said he had seen ,-.y service in the last war, and had done territorial training In this war.—Dismissed, Bateman being advised that he was en- 1 titled to apply for transfer to the National Reserve. . . . ■■ Maurice D. Lanyon, warehouse assist- . ant, appeal by Peter Kennedy, seeking • postponement to the beginning of Marcn. —Postponed to second period. ; Motor Mechanics Albert Nuttridge, njechanic, appeal by Adams, Ltd., employers, against In permanent training cadre. The firm said that Nuttridge was the only trained mechanic in its shop.—Dismissed. , Adams, Ltd., also appealed for Raymond Phillips Wheal, whose training washed for January, and. Brian Leonard Twlss, whose training was postponed to the sec- j , bnd period. ~ „ , Owen Lyndon Davies, farmer, appeal by , J. O. Davies on the grounds of the public / interest and undue hardship. The Min- ; mlttee was told that the Appeal Board had adjourned an appeal against overseas . service sine die. but later the reservist had been permitted, at his own request, to do his three months’ territorial framing. The Appeal Board had not transferred him to the Territorial Force, con- , ; sidering that he was serving the country better on the land.—Decision reserved. G. E. Simpson, butcher, appeal by TSimpson. T. Simpson said he had estab* ;> lished his son in a butchery, for .widen ... he had entered into commitments.—Adjourned for inquiries. ■ i