ARMED SERVICES

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23755, 29 September 1942, Page 6

ARMED SERVICES

MANY APPEALS FOR RAILWAYMEN Most of the time of the Armed Forces Appeal Board (No. 1) yesterday was occupied in hearing appeals lodged by, the Director of National Service on behalf of the Railways Department. Altogether 181 appeals were set down for hearing. Many of the appeals were for men engaged' in the Addington workshops, and those in the locomotive department included fitters, cleaners, traffic staff, porters, traffic labourers, signalmen, and surfacemen. During the hearing of appeals on behalf of men engaged at the Addington workshops. Mr E. A. Lee, chairman of the board, said that it had been brought to the notice of the board that men had refused to work overtime. Mr R. A. Lendrum, workshops Inspecsaid the department could not force men to work on Saturday. This was an agreement made before war was declared. Work on Saturdays was optional, and men would sooner work overtime than on that day. There had been cases where men had refused to work. A number were only doing 40 hours a week, and were engaged on ordinary maintenance, which was different from munition work. To Mr J. E. Jones, who asked Mr Lendrum if he knew that men in Wellington were working up to 71 hours, the answer was that that was probably munitions work. This work represented only 12 per cent, of that done at Addington. Mr G. W. Hall asked what would happen in the case of extreme urgency. Mr Lendrum said the workshops would Just have to close down. Sine die adjournments were granted to the following :—George Robert Askew, James Edward Aldous, Godfrey Athol Anderson, William Roland C. Archie, George Henry Bailey, William Ernest Bambrough, Lawrence Thackway Barnett, Robert Douglas Barron, Alexander John Bartlett, Kenneth Sydney Batten, John Henry Bayliss, Reginald Arthur Beasley, Len Blair, Arthur Robert Borland, Ivanhoe George Botherway, Terras Charles Boyd, Francis Thomas Brooks, William Owen Brough, George Robert Brown, William John Brown. Alexander Bruce, Frederick Buckley. George Telford Burberry, David Louis Butts, Frank Basil Carlisle, Sidney Campbell, Leo Mathew Carruthers, Harold Edwin Chambers, Lawrence Harold Chambers, Ernest Chapman, Richard Thomas Charles Cheyne, William Robert Cockburn, Henry Joseph Codyre, Gordon Leonard Comyns, William Booth Douglas Coulter, Frederick Coventry, William James Crossen, David George Dailey, Raymond Walter Dench, William Alfred Dehch, Malcolm McDougall Dent, Alexander Dickson, Thomas Gerald^,Raymond Dixon, Charles Henry .'DisUg]as'iuJbfih’'-Bdward Dowell, William Charles . Edward ' Duff, David John Stuart Dunn, George Francis Dunn, Arthur Frederick Elwood, Alexander James Eder, Denham Theodore Fisher, Norman Heaton Fisher, Arthur Jdhn Forster, Eric William Foster, Nelson Fox, William John Huia Fright, Robin William Gennet, Stewart William Gibb, George Andrew Glover, Edmond Graffin, Ernest Edward Vingoe Grenfell, Andrew Robert George Gruppelaar, John Leslie Hall, Leicester Robert Hampton, Alan Victor D. Handisidcs, Gordon Robert Harper, William James Harding, Patrick John Harnett.

William Alexander Harris, Herbert Leonard Hatchard, Mervyn Stanley T.. Hayes, Albert Hayles, Jacob Frederick Hill, Edward Henry Holmes, Albert Mathias Imbs, Hector Tait Jennings, Frederick Alfred Jones, Clarence Henry, Albert Keith, William Chambers Kelly. Albert King, James Alfred Lanyon, Alexander Sidney Oliver Lees. Ronald Arthur James Lilley, Cyril James Lennon, Leslie James Lilley, Maxwell Alfred George Lohrey, Lancelot William Lye, Samuel William L. McDonald, Andrew Johnson MacKenzie, Donald Alex MacKenzie, Francis Mallett, Leslie Gordon J. Mason, Daniel Henry Mazey, Patrick Anthony McCabe, lan McCallum, Leonard Clement A. McCann, Eric McDonald, William Lester McDonald, lan Henry Mclver, Eric Norman McLauchlan, John McMurdo, Norman Arthur Merrifleld. Henry Reuben Edward Messervy, Stanley Frederick Minchlngton, Hugh Thomas Henry Molloy, Jack Monk, James Alexander Morton, Leslie Ralph Morgan, Leslie James William Mulligan, Brian Muxlow, Wilfred Annett Newell, Eric William Norrish, Joseph Patrick O’Malley, lan Thomas Painter, Ronald Ward Peek, John Penman, William Edgar J. Perriton, George Phillips, Ernest George Piner, Sidney Albert Pluck, Jack Bryant Pratt, Herbert Darcy Price, John Joseph Patrick Price, Phillip Anthony Randall, John Charles Rich, Harper Wilson Robinson, Cyril James Swinson Rendel, John Robson, Joseph Aloysius Rooney, Roland Hill Rusbatch, John Errol Falconer Ryall, James Herbert Salter, Robert Andrews Samons, Richard Howard Savage, Stephen Owen Schahill, Austin Lorraine Scott,Brian Healey Scully, Nicholas Albert Sherlden. Ronald Edward Slack, Henry Walter Slade. John Kennedy Sloan, Herbert Desmond Smith, Arthur Leslie Smith, Wilbur Smylie Sydney, Charles Leslie Sole, Walter Starr, Allan Lester Stevens, Arthur Henry Stone, Royston Dean, Samuel Sutton, Anon Dixon Tanner, George Ewin James Taylor, William John Taylor, Arthur Alfred TeMe, Donald Henry Warden Terry, Alan Francis Timms, Allen Francis Thain, Eldrld Munro Todd, Noel John Toomey, William Thomas Turrell. William John Turner, Frederick Walter Ward, William John Wells, John White. Kenneth James Whitley, Clarence Vivian Edward Henry Mabey, Leslie Dryberg, John Dix6n Gardner, James Stephen Tohill, Allan Patrick Batchelor, Stanley Wilson. Donald Arthur Wilson, Arnold Edward Winks, Alexander Henry Woodhill, Gavin Arthur N. Woodham, Honour Thomas Godfrey Yates and Harry Louis Raymond Bourgeois. The appeals on behalf of Robert George Gaudin Herd, Frederick Bertram Priddy, Patrick' Francis McDonald, Sidney Feary Provis, Frank James Glanville, and E. V. Milner were dismissed. Appeals by Raymond Thomas Burgess. Thomas Barlass, John Alfred Keech, George Leonard Salt, and Colin Edward Harper were struck out because of medical grading. Appeals against service in the Home Guard were dealt with as followsNorris Arthur Collins, railway employee, dismissed; Archibald William McCorkindale. scrap-metal dealer, reserved; Vivian Edward Henry Mabey. poultry farmer, dismissed. reservist not to commence training before January 1; Archie Frederick James Bailey, butcher, dismissed, reservist not to commence training before January 1; William Strathmore Kelly, labourer (James Curragh and Company), dismissed; Edgar Theodore Salvesen, engineer (Sumner Borough Council), reserved; George William Smith, engineer (Andersons, Ltd.)• reserved; Leslie James Collins and Joseph Christopher Mantell (A. C. Penfold and Co., Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Stanley George Mallard, engineer, reserved. , , x Decisions in appeals against general service were as follows:—Herbert Edward Taylor, bootmaker (British Shoes, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Francis Leslie McKenzie, fitter, and Roger Raymond Stanley, fitter (J. J. Niven and Company, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Francis Timaru Baldwin. works manager (W. Toomey and Company. Ltdi). adjourned sine die. Andrew Grieve Downie, labourer, appealed against service on the grounds of conscience. The appeal was dismissed.

Reference Library on Sunday.—The Christchurch Public Library will, from next Sunday provide newspaper read-ing-room and reference library facilities between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. and 9 p.m on Sundays. This was approved by the Canterbury University College Council yesterday.