ARMED SERVICES APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23750, 23 September 1942, Page 4

ARMED SERVICES APPEALS

BOARD’S DECISIONS Appeals by boot manufacturers for men in essential industry took up most of the time of the Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday. Mr J. S. Barnett presided and with him were Messrs S. L. Wright and G. T, Thurston. Mr E. D. Thompson (secretary) represented the Crown, and Cantain S. Bowron the military authorities. , In many appeals reports from the Utilisation Committee were advanced In support of the appeals by the different firms. Duckworth, Turner, and Company appealed for exemption for 17 employees. Three of these were for release from camp and 14 for exemption from service of men regarded as essential in the industry. Decisions were given as follows; Horace Davies, R. A. L. Jones, dismissed; Stewart Rhind. Clive William Gray, Norman T. Rogers, Archibald C. Eddington, Eric M. T. Healey, William H. Roberts. John D’Arcy, Alexander F, E. Bcgg, Herbert G. Lavender. Reginald C. Hanham, John N. Kirner, Fred William Wilkes.’ and Dudley lan Webb, adjourned sine die.

In appeals lodged by O'Brien's, Ltd., decisions were given as follows:—Christopher Rhodes, Ernest H. Perry, Jchn McIntyre Herd. William M. Edward, Maurice P, Fielding, Arthur E. O'Brien. Michael F. O'Brien, Roland McKinnon, Walter T. Beer, and Henry F. Wright, adjourned sine die; Basil G. Wheeler and William Chatterton, dismissed.

In appeals by Suckling Bros., Ltd., decisions were made as follows: —Leslie Dwight, Stanley Hector Andrew, Trevor Lance Barnden, Raymond Brown, Leonard Rex White, Leslie Cope. Maurice McKay, Jack Hazelhurst, John Dcuglas Leonard, Frank Hurrell, George Leslie L. Griffiths, Sidney Maurice Millward. Samuel J. Flewellyn, John Hampton, John Brimfield Bailey, Harold.Gordon Bowden, Gavin Raymond Boyce, and Frederick Williams, adjourned sine die; Ivan Benjamin Everest and Robert M. Lamb dismissed; Noel Desmond Dunn, dismissed, reservist not to commence training before November 30.

Appealed for by Suckling Bros., Ltd., the following were granted adjournments sine die: Theodore Dennis Sullivan, Kenneth Stanley Pyne, James Aloysius Holland, and Andrew Cedric Pegg. Perry’s Shoes. Ltd.,'s appeal for Stanley W. Fuller was dismissed, reservist not to commence, training before November 30. A sine die adjournment was granted in the appeal for Eric Norman Phillipson.

Appeals by British Shoes. Ltd., were dealt with as follows:—Albert William Clark Theodore Richard Dunnell, Samuel W. Boaz, Edwin John Baker, and Harold George A. Brown, adjourned sine die; John William Myers, dismissed, reservist not to commence training before November 30.

The appeals for Noel Donald Livingstone, Edith Warren Gillard, and Gavin Cameron, of the Enterprise Boot Manufacturing Company, were adjourned sine die.

Sine die adjournments were granted in the appeals by Carlyle Slipper Company for Harwood A. Davis, Albert Edward Harwood, and Clynlck G. Brown. The Canterbury Frozen Meat Company appealed for 32 employees, and in all but one case a sine die adjournment was granted. Those appealed for were: C O. McKay, W, Parry, E. Pengellv, F. L. Quinn. P. Quarterly. J. T. Vincent, W. J Moffatt, W. E. Cox, R. J. Hickland, W J. McCormack, H. E. Malzard, Allen Smith, L. K. Smith, W. F. Nelson, J. F Topp, W. McNeill, G. R. G, Donald. A C Whyte. G. H. Ashby. D. J. Wilson, G. H Moore; M. D. Gaffney, E. R. Bond, A. F Bassett, O. C. Battersby, C. J Chivers, F M. B. Rudge, A. J Miller, T J. Fogarty, C, M. B. Douglas, William Kaio Arthur L K. Smith, Nelson, Topp, McNeill, Donald, Ashby, and Rudge were ordered to train between July 1 and November 30 The appeal for N. M. Farrant was dismissed, reservist having joined the Navy. Gilbert White, a soldier, appealed for release from camp for one month. The board decided to support the appeal. C. O. Spiller, accountant, appealed for by the Perpetual Trustees and Agency Company, was granted a sine die adjournment.