APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23747, 19 September 1942, Page 7

APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

♦ DECISIONS OF BOARD An appeal by Roberts Fish Supply to the Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday for the release of two men, Charles V. Martin and Sergeant C. L. Dennis, from military service, brought comments from Mr J. T. Thurston, a member of the board, Captain S. Bowron representing the military authorities, and Mr A. C. Perry representing the appellant. Mr Perry said that Martin had been appealed for previously, but since then the position had changed and Mrs Roberts, owner of the business, had thought it only fair to place fresh facts before the board. Martin’s work since then, had not been altogether satisfactory, he had refused to do overtime work, and had an upsetting influence on the staff. Sergeant Dennis, a grade 1 man, aged 48 years, employed in a military camp, was being appealed for, and the appellant would not proceed with the appeal for Martin if Dennis could be released. When asked by the chairman (Mr J. S. Barnett) for the Army’s report on Sergeant Dennis, Captain Bowron said he was a good soldier and very- efficient In work on rations. He objected strongly, however, to the attitude of the appellant, who, realising that a man was not showing real efficiency in civilian .work, wished to exchange him for a man who was doing a good job in the. Army. Mr Thurston: You have put the position in a nutshell, Captain,. and have saved me the trouble of expressing the same opinions. Mr Perry said there had been a misconception, and Mrs Roberts had been more than fair In placing the true position before the board. The appellant had offered a man for overseas service and wanted one who was not available for that service. The appeal for Martin was dismissed and Dennis’s release from camp recommended. Other decisions were:—Charles' S. Ell, pharmaceutical' chemist, adjourned sine die; Hugh M. Hillgrove, plumber (C. and J. Colvlfie, Ltd.), dismissed; Thomas Hugh Tallott, foreman printer and compositor (Williamson, Stevens, and Company), dismissed, reservist not to commence training until November 3; Cyril Williams, labourer (F. King), dismissed; Lorraine David Grant, fitter and turner (Metal Pressing Company, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; O. Farquhar, ship's carpenter (J. Miller, Ltd.), adjourned * sine die; John Palmer, labourer (L. Cox), adjourned sine die; William Davey, soldier, dismissed; Seddon Taylor Adam, milk roundsman, held over for further Inquiries; Donald Alexander Gillanders, farmworker, held over for further inquiries; Henry Mcßride, linen flax employee (Director of National Service), adjourned sine die; Clarence Lester Clark, buttermaker (Canterbury Central Co-op. Dairy Company, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Neville Cyril Hijl, storeman packer (Foodstuffs, Ltd.), dismissed, reservist not to commence training before November 30; Peter Ronald le Cren, metallurgist (Alloy Steel, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; James Edward Adams, electric crane driver (Lyttelton Harbour Board), held over for further inquiries; S. R. Jones, shoveldriver (T. E. Elliott), service postponed for three months; William Frederick Henry Kars, market gardener, adjourned sine die; Frederick Chadwick, coal-miner, now hotel manager, dismissed on condition that reservist returns to the mines within three months: Leslie William Tipler, Diesel mechanic (Gough, Gough, and Hamer), adjourned sine die; J. A. Henderson, grocer, dismissed, reservist not to commence training before November 19; Ernest George Albert Brand, . process worker (Andrews, Baty and Company, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Arthur Eustace Newton Wilkins, assistant audit Inspector (Director of National Service), adjourned sine die; George Cooper, coal worker (McClatchie and Company, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Ernest Frederick Bearman, storeman (John Burns and Company, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; L. N. White (New Zealand Refrigerating Company, Ltd.), dismissed, reservist not to commence training before December 31; R. Burson, clothing presser (Kaiapol Woollen Company), adjourned sine die; Kenneth Bercsford Allen, traffic clerk, and Lyell Kelvin (Christchurch Tramways Board), adjourned sine die; Colin Wright, dralnlaycr (Ayling and King, Ltd.), dismissed, reservist not to commence training before October 31.