ARMED SERVICES APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23798, 18 November 1942, Page 4

ARMED SERVICES APPEALS

DECISIONS OF NO. 2 BOARD Appeals by farmers and their assistants occupied the greeter part of the time of the Armed Force? Appeal Board No. Z yesterday. Most of these appeals were adjourned sine die after reports had been received from IN Farming Production Councils in th. different districts. A number of or penis by students were also heard, anti excepting for a few selected students the remainder were granted until Dei ember 31 to complete their examinations Mr J. S Barnett presided, and with him were Mr G. T Thurston and Mr H. McCaw. Mr F.. D. Thompson appeared for the Crown and Captain S. Bowron represented the military authorities. Kendal V Atkinson, a commercial traveller, attended in support of an appeal lodged on his behalf by St. G. Atkinson and Company. He said his appeal was against overseas service only. The Hon. D. G. Sullivan in a recent statement had stressed the danger the country was in, and he thought it his duty to stay in New Zealand and protect his wife and his children. “Men went overseas and got wiped up," said Atkinson, ‘ and when the Japanese arrive we have no one here to protect our children.” Mr McCaw sate most of the soldiers would possibly prefer to stay at home, but they had a duty to perform. Mr Thompson; The Government probably knows a great deal more about the war position in New Zealand than we do and we must trust to their judgment. The appeal was dismissed. Sine Oie Adjournments Sine die adjournments were granted in appeals for the following farmers: —Roland Oakleigh Hill, Robert Bethell Rice, Rex lan Sutherland. Percy Luscombe Davison, Villiam John Ludemann, William John Coopei, lan Francis George Gardiner Harold Laurie James, Herbert Amos Hunt, Gordon Henry Cherry, Richard Kenneth Morrish, Francis Neil O’Boyle, Alexander Williamson Sloss, Alan diaries Ranbv, William John Doyle, Ellis Lionel Hiatt. Francis Gordon Barnes, Cecil Walter Hartnell, Arthur Lawrence Gartcry, George Gregor Smith, William Read Bainbridge John Edward Bowden, Alexander Liggett Douglas James Cree, Owen Trevor Conway, Henry Carmichael Anderson, Percivai Croft, Edward Chapman Sunckell, William Taylor Ross, Ernest Makinson Taylor, Gavin Alexander Stewart, Clement Edward George Stewart, Renzie Gordon Grant McLachlan, James Reesic Dugan, John Kenneth McAlpine, Ronald Walter Skurr, Robert George Manson, Alfred Wilton Amor, Henry Gladstone Petrie. Thomas Clayton Flight. Earle Alfred Harrison. James Asnley Upritchard, Gordon Leslie Barnett, Robert Taylor Lambie, Oswyn Alrd Weils, Clifford Wellesley Denton, Ronald William White, Samuel Edward Hampton. George Raymond Bedford, Charles Pickup. Robert McMillan Baxter. Percivai Bassett Birkett, Kenneth Melville Hill, Robert Ledgevwood Donald. Gordon Wilfred Douglas Thomas, Ernest Joseph Inch. Seymour Sandford James. Edward Campbell Cossar, Aubrey George Hart, Leslie William Kerr. In other appeals sine die adjournments were granted as follows:—Richard William Colquhon Norrie, gasworks clerk; Paoli Vincent Luisetti, grain merchant: Frank William James Murdoch, chemist: Leonard Gleason Millar and George Raphael Thompson, Salvation Army officers; James McAlister, county clerk and engineer; George Donald Everest, tractionengine driver; Thomas Henry Smitheram and Ernest McAleer, labourers; David Clement Johnston, poultry-farm assistant: John Brinknall Lee, poultry farmer; William Harold Byrnes, tool and die maker; Albert Hugh Flay, lecturer and farm advisory officer; Cecil James Blair, fruitgrower; James Curtin, shunter New Zealand Railways, John Irvine McCHmont. coalminer; Edward William Howart, baker, James Francis Heyward, pharmaceutical chemist; William Jack Bowes, John Herbert Wood Freear, Eric Brooker French, Leslie Rondall Gordon, Bernard McGuire, George Flenry Plummer. Andrew Rankine, mental hospital attendants: Allen Andrew Lang, engine-driver;, and George Craig, coalminer. Appeals by Students In appeals by students, the following decisions were given:—Rohan Knight Hughes, Robert Louden Closs, John Langley Rogers, Peter Lockhead Kennedy, adjourned sine die; Edward Arthur Johnston, Peter Mclntyre, Donald Joseph Dobson, James Douglas Colonna, Richard Manning King, Colin Marcus JVliln, and John Francis Healy, service postponed till December 31. Other decisions were as follows;—lvan Algie Adolphus Lcgge, cabinetmaker; Herbert Martinus Christensen,' barman, service postponed until December 31; Cyril Raymond Jarman, fibrous plasterer, service postponed till January 31; John 'Colquhoun Lowe, workshops manager (South' Island Motors, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Frank Henry Duggan, cabinetmaker (J, M. Mitchell. Ltd.), decision reserved; W. C. P. Hopkins, costing and shipping dork (Hurst and Drake, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Matthew O’Donnell, motor mechanic: T. R. A. McCleary, foreman mechanic; L. B. Smith, painter; W T. Muttpn, mechanic (Adams, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Sydney G. Faulkner, foreman (Simpson and Williams, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Samuel Kane and James Leonard Boskell, brick-workers (Murphy Bros,, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Alick Douglas Kohn, accountant; Eric A. Axelsen, warehouseman, adjourned sine die; Malcolm L. Donaldson, cost clerk (Turnbull and Jones, Ltd,), service postponed till December 31; G. H. A. Fraser, storomanpackcr (Weston Bros. Company, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Cecil J. Knight, process worker (P. H. Venables, Ltd.), adjourned sine die. Other Appeals J. R. Gaskin, a soldier, was recommended lor leave until January 1; Raymond L, Smith was recommended for a further month's leave. An appeal by Mrs W. J. Ridgcn for George James William Ridgen, adjourned from a previous sitting of the board, was dismissed. The following appeals were adjourned sine die without hearing, the medical grading of the appellants not being of the standard required for service:—John Watts Bradshaw, Andrew James Cunningham, Thomas Clarence Dolan, Rex Ernest Alfred Gillman, Arthur Griffiths Hembrow, Athol James Jamieson, Arnold David McFadden, John James Russell Manson, Herbert Sidney Mawson, William Gerald Mottram, Edward James Paton, George Robert Seaton, Francis Stanley Sullivan, Edward John Wilson, Albert Roy Betteridge. Nelson Stanley Boyce, Hector Maurice Buchanan, James McDonald Clarke, John Lance Collie, Stanley Crosier, Albert Ronald Malcolm Day, John Dowie, William Herbert Elston, John Thomas Gibson, Thomas Francis Wilson Gorman. Eric Robert Grimwood, Edwin Haste, Clifford Herbert Holden, Sydney Hanz Peter Inns, Francis Eric Kitchingham, Cyril McCaskey, Horace Peter Samuel McGregor, Vernon Makinson, Guy Vernon Manning, Norman Evan Margetts, Arthur Marra, Alfred Henry Martin, James Francis Mather Crawford, Robert Astley Meikle, Stanley Robert Millin, Harold Maxwell Minson, Albert Francis Moorhouse, John Bernard Leslie Needham, Arthur Cox. Walter Frederick Dempsey. Clifford Henry J. Gainsford, William John Maxwell Gosney, William Joseph Hoban, Cecil John Jordan, Charles Edward J. McGrath, Archie Edward J. Martin, William Albert E. May, William Richard Nuttall, Benjamin Thomas Pearce, Stephen Osborne Stevens, Reginald Wilkins, Eric Thomas Allen. Douglas Stanley Owen Binnie, Ernest Wairau Broad, Cicel Albert Chapman. Harold Vincent James Cofley, Ronald Alfred Couling, Alexander Morrison Currie, Charles John Doussett, Herbert Dunshea, William John Geddes, Allan William Goodman, Peter Grant, Maurice John Hardy, Frank Hevvson, Alec. Robert Hutcheson, Alfred Clifford Jackman, Vernon James McAslan, Francis WilllaiwMcEntee, John Alexander Mackie, Archibald John Malloch, William

Ernest Mapplebeck, Laurence James Marquet, Robert Edwin Douglas Marsh, Eric Campbell Marlin. John Frederick Albos Mather. George Miller, Thomas Edwin Mills Dovey, Walter Ernest Moore, Alec Morris, Robert John Newby.