RAILWAYMEN RELEASED

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23625, 30 April 1942, Page 6

RAILWAYMEN RELEASED

* DECISIONS BY APPEAL BOARD Adjournments sine die on the ground of me public interest were granted in 108 appeals made by the Director of National Service for employees of the New Zealand Railways at a sitting of the Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday. Mr E A. Lee presided, and with him were Messrs A. H. McKane and G. M. Hall. Dr. A. L. Haslam represented the Crown. Evidence in support of the appeals was given by a number of departmental officers. Mr H. W. Dallison, workshops superintendent, quoted figures to show the large reduction in the workshops staffs since war broke out. He said that in 1939, 7244 men were employed, and the number had now been reduced to 4765, More than 1500 men were serving in some branch of the armed forces. Last year there had been big increases in the number of passengers and the amount of goods carried by the railways. In answer to a question from the board, Mr Dallison stated that the men appealed for from the Addington workshops were definitely essential. Staffs in workshops were so reduced that an effort was being made to have suitable men transferred from the armed forces. All workshops employees were members of the Home Guard or E.P.S. The appeals were for the following reservists:— Hector William Stephen Abernethy, automatic-signal maintalner; Leopold Gerhard August Abrahams, fireman; Francis Kennedy Amos, coppersmith; Stanley Baird, labourer; Brian Geoffrey Baldwin, cleaner and fireman; James Levick Beebe, welder; Lester Arthur Bench, boilermaker; Frank Billcliff, wood-machinist; William lan Bonniface, fitter-turner; Edward Boyle, wplder; Clifford Percival Breach, electric line erector; Alexander Bruce, porter; Thomas David Brunton, firepian and driver; Edward Wallace Bryce, boilermaker; James Burden, stationmaster; James George Burgess, cleaner; William Henry Burgess, carpenter; Gilbert Peters Burke, wood machinist; Reuben Henry Cashmere, fireman and driver; Horace Arthur Churchill, motor-lorry driver; Andrew Alexander Clark, surfaceman; Ronald Overton Clark, labourer; Maurice Randal Clarke, guard; Maxwell George Cole, porter; William Collins, fireman and en-gine-driver; James Edward Cowell, shunter; Harold Stewart Curtis, electrician: Arnold Douglas Donnell, labourer; Raymond Archie Everett, porter; Bernard Edward Leo Alfred Fanning, fitter; Frederick Henry Feutz, cleaner; Frank Smith Frayle, fitter; Francis Lester Reeve Frew, acting-carpenter; lan Warneford Gale, labourer: Edwin Vincent Gaw, clerk; Harold Heathcote Gibbons, carpenter; Renold Edgar Gladlng, Cyril Henry Vincent Godfrey, carpenter: John Hamer, blacksmith: Gordon Henry Hampton, surfaceman; Claude Alfred James Harris, engine-driver; Colliss Hyndman Hocken, fitter; William Ernest Honeywill, surfaceman; Richard John Hore, technical costing officer; Gordon Hubert, fitter; Joseph Robert I’Anson, carpenter; Ernest Theodore Fremont Kay. garage foreman; Albert Ernest Kemp, surfaceman; Ernest William Lawfield, fitter; Lloyd Menpes Lightfoot, surfaceman; William Henry McCausland, porter; Joseph McCobb, silrfaceman; John MacLachlan. boilermaker: Elwln John MacMillan, surfaceman; Allan Logan Godfrey Manderson, carpenter; Samuel Marriot, fitter and shop draftsman; William Francis Noel Mather, fitter: John Darby Maxwell, carpenter; Horace William Melville, shunter; Ronald Robert Edward Minchington. surfaceman: Henry Martindale Mooney, fitter; Francis Robert Moore, turner: Andrew Oliver Muir, surfaceman: Irvine James Newberry, cleaner; Philip Richard Newman, porter; Thomas William Newton, fitter; George William Papps, fitter; William Park, shunter: Leonard James Pearce, electric-line erector; Clarence H. Pepper, labourer; Eric Phillips, fitter; Samuel Pickett, labourer; Leslie Walter Piper, surfaceman; Albert Rimmer, porter; William Patrick Robb, automatic-sig-nal maintainer; Arthur Leslie Roberts, carpenter; James Samuel Robertshaw, ganger; William Albert Robinson, en-gine-driver; Charles Ross, fitter: James Sanders, sub-foreman; Albert George Seymour Saunders, shunter; John Savage, labourer; Norman Frank Schroeder, ganger; Buchanan John Scott, shift clerk: Roy Alfred Seeker, labourer; George William Snelling, porter: Walter James Ferber Spargo, porter: Alexander Sutherland, labourer; William Colin Syme, labourer; George Maxwell Taylor, cleaner; Alexander George Thompson, shunter; John Walter Vivian, fitter and costing officer: Eric Alan Mafeking Voice, labourer; George John Henry Wakefield, carpenter: Arthur Alan Ward, skilled labourer; Randall Alfred John Warren, surfaceman; Arthur Thomas John Weekes, labourer; Leslie Walter Werner, wood-machinist; John William Whltla, cleaner and fireman; James John Whitmore, fitter; Albert Alick Wills, electrician; Edward George Wilson, fireman: Keith William Wootton, cleaner and fireman; Henry Gibbs Wright, carpenter; John Gilbert Wright, carpenter; Robert William Knight, stationmaster: Robert Miller McCarrigan, clerk; Alfred Black, electric-line erector. Other Appeals The following reserved decisions were given In appeals made on the ground of the public Interest:—Colin Raymond Walsh, pipelayer (Hume Pipe Company, Ltd.).— Adjourned, to be reviewed in two months. Thomas Wilfred Shirley, clerk (Atlantic Union Oil Company, Ltd.).—Adjourned, to be reviewed in three months. The following appeals were adjourned sine die on the ground of the public interest:—Norman Musson, farmer (W. Musson); James Buggy, boot factory operative (S. Anderson and Company); John Ward Davis, boot repairer, Vernon Ellis, glove cutfer (New Zealand Glove Company, Ltd.); James Alexander Sullivan, foreman (Woolston Tanneries, Ltd.); Frederick Haughton Thompson, machine operator (Woolston Tanneries, Ltd.); Ronald Hobart Sutherland, leather goods manufacturer. Postponement of service until August 1 was granted in an appeal by Leslie Horace Thompson, upholsterer. Appeals by Victor Greenslade, carpenter, and Raymond Nelson Ritchie, commercial traveller, were withdrawn by leave of the board. Decisions in appeals on the ground of the public Interest were reserved as follows:—Albert Dixon, chicory worker (Canterbury Chicory Works, Ltd.); Frank Williamson. factory manager (C. J. Williamson, Ltd.); Eric George Garbutt, accountant (Swift N.Z. Company, Ltd.). An appeal by Arthur Rhodes, on the ground of undue hardship, was adjourned sine die. An appeal by William Wraight, on grounds of conscientious objection, undue hardship, and public interest, was dismissed. The reservist did not appear.