APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23588, 16 March 1942, Page 6

APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

* • MANPOWER COMMITTEE’S DECISIONS The secretary of the Manpower Committee (Mr E. D. Thompson) announced on Saturday morning the following decisions in appeals for transfer from the National Military Reserve to the Home Guard Dismissed, Fred Graham and Charles Nolan Graham, paper-runners; James Roundill, school cartetaker, employed by the Waimairi School Committee; Edward Alfred Robert Sabiston, clerk and supervisor, employed by Dalgety and Company; H. G. Lyttle, public accountant, auditor and secretary; G. J. Lanyon, company representative, employed by Reckitt and Colman (New Zealand), Ltd.; Edgar L. Stace, motor engineer; R. T, Cowper, dentist. Recommended to be transferred to the Home Guard as soon as they can be replaced in their units: William Kedslie Murray, plumber and engineer, employed' by A. J. Jamieson; and Horace Simon, munition worker, employed by W. H. Price and Sons, on condition that he takes up full-time employment on munition work. Before his mobilisation, Simon had been working on a night shift as a flour-miller, and in addition had been spending four hours daily on munition work, the money thus earned being returned to the Government in the form of National Savings. The appeal of Harman Warren, company secretary, employed by Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., was adjourned for further consideration; and that of G. C. Russell, acting manager, employed by Ashby, Bergh and Company, adjourned for further inquiries. The following decisions were given in appeals against service in the territorial forces, the name of the appellant being given in parenthesis where the reservist was not appealing on ’his own behalf:— Dismissed; David Crosbie, branch manager (J. B. Westray and Company, Ltd.); lan James Ainsley, draughtsman (Madame Ainsley); lan D. White, apprentice chemist (A. J. Derbidge); L. S. Carpenter, farm hand (A. M. Carpenter): H. G. Smart, clerk (Director of National Service); James Christopher Croft, farm-hand (John C. Croft); Vandall Leeming, farmer. The service of L. T. J. Andrews, science and mathematics teacher (Christchurch West High School), Leo Charles Croft, farm hand (J. C. Croft), and Thomas Pearson, farm hand (J. Pearson), were postponed sine die. The service of Albert Ernest Williams, farmer, was postponed, the decision to be reviewed in three months. The service of E. F. Rushton, farm hand (E. P. Rushton), was postponed, the reservist to serve from April 1 to July 31. Recommended to be released from camp; Arnold James Millar, farm hand (H. A. Millar), and Colin Frederick Noel Mundy and Cecil Roberts Christensen, market gardeners, all to serve from June 1 to August 31; E. H. H. Snellex, tractor driver (J. Paget), until May 31; Ronald Henry Gibbs, farm hand (H. T. Gibbs), until March 31; Colin Robert Gibbs, farm hand (H. T. Gibbs), service to be postponed sine die: A. M. Murray, storeman (Mrs A. M. Murray), and Neil Aldwyn Boon, manager (Boon and Company), service to be postponed sine die on condition of joining the Home Guard. The appeal of Dudley Raymond Masefield, commercial traveller, was held over for further inquiries.