AHMED SERVICES APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23746, 18 September 1942, Page 7

AHMED SERVICES APPEALS

LATEST CALL-UP MANY APPEALS EXPECTED (P.AJ WANGANUI, September 17. Many appeals by or for men called for service in the latest Gazette are expected. It has been unofficially stated that 60 per cent, of the last call up appealed or was appealed for. It was estimated to-day that on this occasion the figure would probably be 80 per cent. A big proportion of those called are farmers or workers on farms. Many others are in essential industries and many more in executive posts in factories, shops, and offices. Of 12 men consulted to-day, all were appealing or being appealed*for by their' employers, many of whom already have skeleton staffs. DECISIONS OP BOARD Men employed by freezing works companies are to have their services limited to a certain period of the year, according to a statement made by Mr J. S. Barnett, chairman of the Armed Forces Appeal Board, yesterday. The Army will be asked to release men now on special leave. With Mr Barnett were Messrs G. T. Thursston and S. L. Wright. Mr E. D. Thomson (secretary)' appeared for the Crown and Captain S. Bowron for the military authorities:— Messrs T. Borthwick and Sons, Ltd., appealed for 77 employees, New Zealand Refrigerating Company for 19, and the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company for 11., sine die adjournments being granted in the following appeals:—Gash, R.; Green, H. B.; Byron, R. D.; Campbell, A. N.; Geddes. J.; Hill, D. C; King, C. J.; Pateman, L.; Richardson, E. H.; Duke, J.; Feutz, L.; Ferguson, N.; People's, W.; Slattery, T. W.; Kiesanowski, G. E.; King, S. E.; Barndon, M. R.; Thompson, E. J.; Smith, N. L.; Jcsson, V. J.; Marson, C; Fearnley, M.; Marsh, M. W.; Arps, A. B.; Henderson, L. E.; Mitten, T. F.; Butt, J. E.; Barker, W.; Simpson, A. B.; Guy, T. A,; Cameron, C. J.; Thomson, R. T.; Simpson, A. L.; Grey, W.; Butler, B. J.; Hinks, G. H.: Powell. J.; Mather, G.; Powis. H. M.; Deady, A. E.; Rossiter, E. T. Rayner, L.; Merritt, W. A.: Burrows, F.; Davey, H. C; Wilson, O.; Voice, D.; Black, R. W.; McKay, C: Pateman, K. B.: Tibbote, C; Price. E. N.; Rew, G. C; Bell, J; Tomson, N.; Jamieson, G. E. W.; Smith, D.; McKenzie, D. J.; Holt, V.; Roberts, «H. J.; Hennessy, W.; Cains, G.; McGuigan, J.; Price, A.; Teague, J.; Small, D.; Farrelly, R.; Poulsen, J. C; Alexandre, R. E.; Nielson, H.; Oates, J.; Harris, C. R.; Pentecost, S.; Stanbury, A. G.; Hartley, L. J.; Johnston, A. R. C; Kerr, H. (Borthwick and Sons, Ltd.). McFetrish, W. J.; Lewis, G. C; McLauchlin, L. J.; Robb, D.; Davis, L. W.; Burrows, G. W.; Marr, W. E.; Roberts, D.; Bennett, J. E.; Abbott, W. E. L.; Newell, D.; Richards, J.; Davis, E. H.; Amos, L. T.; Davis, D. N.; Lattimore, J. B.; Lattimore, P. C; Webb, D. J.; Slade, F. C. (N.Z. Refrigerating Company, Ltd.). Ashley. H. M. W.; Bradley, T. R.; Boland, R. C; Cains, T.; Carey, K. J. P.; Young, H.; Everest, C. E.; Harris, A. P. S.; Smith, E.; and Nicholson, D. (Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, Ltd.). Other decisions were given as follows: Lawrence Edward Smith, shop manager (Fred Smith), decision deferred pending receipt of medical certificate; Maxwell Hensley Peek, fitter and turner (H. Walker. Ltd.), adjourned for review early in January; Daniel Bruce Drury, butcher (J. Sharman and Sons), adjourned sine die; Robert Joseph Hughey, lime worker, dismissed, reservist not to commence training before November 30; Reginald Charles Hogg, stock clerk (Sims, Cooper and Company), Walter S. Terris, appeal held over; Richard James Hobbs, manufacturers' agent, dismissed, reservist not to commence training till October 31; Robert Nathan Sydney Overend, clothing presser (Miller's, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Clifford Charles Gatehouse, carpenter (J. and W. Jamieson, Ltd.), dismissed, reservist not to commence training before October 31; J. T. Taylor, carpenter (J. and W. Jamieson, Ltd.), release from camp recommended until October 20; Ernest le Roy Ozane, carpenter (Paynter and Hamilton, Ltd.), dismissed, reservist not to commence training before November 30; James Ross Stevenson, grain and seed buyer (Cuddon and Stewart, Ltdv), adjourned sine die; Walter James Stackhouse, farm manager (J. J. Blackburn), adjourned sine die; Clifford Francis Coulter, wire -worker (District Fire Controller), adjourned sine die; Selwyn McDonald Devereux, metal polisher (Mrs E. C. L. Devereux), decision reserved; Gilbert Thomas Simpson and Alan Stanley Graham, bank clerks (National Bank of New Zealand), adjourned sine die; Martin James Brady, engineer (Sisters of the Good Shepherd), adjourned sine die; Ivan Harper, chemist's apprentice, decision reserved; Joseph Patrick O'Brien, bushman (Aitken and Gillespie and C. P. McErlain), adjourned sine die; Raymond Frederick Ellmers, chain slaughterman (North Canterbury Freezing Company), decision reserved; Harry Edward Depree, retreader (Motorways, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; J. Mathieson, retreader (Motorways, Ltd.). dismissed, reservist not to commence training before November 30; William Ives, clerk (Norwich Union Insurance Company). dismissed: John Harold Watt and Allan Grant- Kenelley, fruit inspectors (Department of Agriculture), adjourned sine die; Frederick Didson Taylor, boot repairer (C. E. Bennett), dismissed; Denzil Selwyn Webb, soldier, held over for further inquiry; John Hudson, process worker, struck out for lack of prosecution; Gordon Campbell Pethig, mechanic (Director of National Service)', adjourned sine die: William Joseph Jackson, retort house stoker, and Albert Ernest Mather, gasworks foreman (Christchurch Gas Company), adjourned sine die; Mather on medical grading: John Leonard Pooe, dismissed: W. H. Davies. R. W. Asprey, and W. J. A. Jordon. railway employees, adjourned sine die on the grounds of medical grading; Frank Newton, baker and pastrycook, dismissed, reservist not to commence training before November 30: John Thomson, grocer, dismissed, reservist not to commence training before November 30.