ARMED SERVICES APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23797, 17 November 1942, Page 6

ARMED SERVICES APPEALS

DECISIONS OF NO. 2 BOARD

Out of a total of 2886 male teachers in New Zealand, no fewer than 1300 have been withdrawn from the schools for service in the Armed Forces, said Mr L. E. Rowley, secretary to the Canterbury Education Board, in making an appeal for exemption from service of a big number of teachers before the Armed Services No. 2 Appeal Board yesterday. In Canterbury 224 teachers had been taken out of a total of 457, and the position was aggravated by the very few men entering the Training College, since men students in training entered military service on attaining the age of 18 years. Students in training were being used as relieving teachers. This practice must affect the training of these students. Some of the married women teachers who had returned to the profession were finding it impossible to carry on; in any case married women teachers were unable to leave their homes to fill the vacant positions in the country. In some districts the supply of married women teachers willing to return to teaching was already exhausted. In further support of the appeals, Mr S. J. Irwin, Chief Inspector of Schools, said that in England no school teacher over the age of 30 years was allowed to hold any position in the Army. If he took up service he forfeited his superannuation. It was also found that in air raids the first man the children looked for was the teacher who had taught them. Mr J. S. Barnett presided, and with him wer,e Messrs S. L, Wright and G. T. Thurston. Mr E. D. Thompson appeared for the Crown, and Captain S. Bowron represented the military authorities. The following appeals by the Canterbury Education Board for school teachers were adjourned sine die:—Lawrence H. Bansgrove, Errol R. Brain, Duncan E. Brown, Hector G. Brown, Alfred E. Coumbe, Stanley J. Drew, William J. Edwards, Albert F. Ellis, Aleck H. Forbes, Alan A. Fowke. Sidney W. Gower, Raymond' E, Grant, Arthur G. Green, Edward W. G. Hay, William H. Henderson, William J. A. Hollow, Walter St. O. Herman, Douglas G. S. Loder, Ronald K. Loney, Maurice P. Lyng. Brian R. Lynskey, Norman McArthur, lan C. Millar, Clarence H. T. Miller, George F,. R. Robinson, Richard H. Rowe, Alfred D. M. Saunders, Oliver D. Sewell, Robert J. G. Simpson, Reginald M. Stevens, Donald U. Taylor, Herbert L. Thiele, Herbert I. Turnbull, Roy W. C. Woodward, John B. Mora, D. J. D. Douglas, Andrew Anderson, William A. Arnold, Noel H. C. Bell, Geoffrey C. Brookes, Gavin F. Brown, Cyril G. Calvert, Arthur V. A. Chappell, Norman J. D. Douglas, William J. Gilmour, James Carson Gilbert, Horace L. Gleave, John A. Glen, Andrew

McD. Grigor, Ewart Neil J. Hannah, Robert M. Hanning, Russell W. G. Hay, Donald S. Kelman, Arthur M. Lambourne, Kenneth J. S. McNaughton. Warren Frederick Marsh, Leslie M. Perry, William N. Pickard, Frederick J. C. Turner, Raymond S. Williams, Thomas P. Crowe, Donald Cutler, John R. Hinchey, Hugh A. Jones, Ronald L. Matthews, Robert H. Sutherland. In other appeals before the board decisions were as follows: Albert John Windsor, floor serviceman (Carpet Shampoo Company), adjourned sine die; Reginald Bruce Smith, secretary (Foodstuffs, Ltd.), dismissed, training postponed unt>J February 28: Richie Albert E. Mugftrd and Leslie Heathcote Clark, shift workers (Smokeless Fuel Company), adjourned sine die: Vaughan Ballinger, metal-presser (Metal Pressing Company), adjourned sine die; Barry Tremain Hurley, apprentice engineer, and Arthur Lovell West, moulder (F. C. Penfold and Company), adjourned sine die;. Seaton Wallace Porter, paperruler (Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie), adjourned sine die; George Dickinson, casket maker (G. Dickinson and Sons), adjourned sine die; Roald Bank, apprentice cutter (Sutherland and Company), decision reserved; John Martin Mitchell, factory manager (J. M. Mitchell, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Eric Major Russell, driver (E. Russell), adjourned sine die; Douglas Wheatley Ward, packer, and Colin Charles Grove, foreman (Pioneer Manufacturing Company), adjourned sine die; EUis G. Moon, fat lamb buyer, and Owen Archibald Keith, manager (T. Borthwlck and Sons), 'decision reserved; Wallace Lloyd Grenfell, engineer, and Thomas Frederick Killlck, machinist (Bunting and Company), adjourned sine die; William Raymond Carlisle, dispatch clerk, and Arthur Edward Hicks, halrdrafter (Bunting and Company), decision reserved.