ARMED SERVICES APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23811, 3 December 1942, Page 6

ARMED SERVICES APPEALS

—«— DECISIONS OF NO. 1 BOARD

Further appeals against general service and Home Guard training were heard by the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday and several of these were on the ground of conscience. Mr E. A. Lee presided, and with him were Mr J. E. Jones and Mr G. M. Hall. For a period during the forenoon Mr T. M. Charters replaced Mr Hall. Allan Garfield Jones, a woolsorter. whose appeal on the grounds of conscience at a previous sitting of the board had been dismissed, said he still held the same views. The appeal was dismissed. Frank Harry Wilson, a roofing contractor,' appealed on the grounds of the public interest and conscience. He was a member of the Exclusive Brethren and was prepared to render non-combatant service. Both appeals were dismissed and service postponed till January 31, reservist to do non-combatant service only. Leslie Paul Walsh, a labourer employed at the Woolston Tanneries, who appealed on the grounds of undue hardship and conscience, said he was not a member of any religious order or sect, but under cross-examination said he was a Jehovah’s Witness. The appeal was adjourned sine die on grounds of undue hardship. Cyril Howard Dartnall, a grocer’s assistant, a member of the Exclusive Bfethren, expressed his willingness to do noncombatant service only. Dartnall Brothers, his employers, appealed on the grounds of undue hardship and the public interest. Both appeals were dismissed, reservist to do non-combatant service after January 31. The appeal on grounds of conscience by Russell Thurlow Thompson was allowed. Other decisions were as follows:—Rossmore Harneiss, shearer (Director of National Service), dismissed, service postponed till January 31; Lionel Stratford Radford, carrier, held over for further inquiries; Thomas George Anderson, photographer, dismissed; Maxwell Leonard Paynter, builder and contractor, dismissed, service postponed till January 31; Guy Haste Dunlop, engineer (Garside, Penfold and Company), adjourned sine die; Neil Morgan McKay, bootmaker, dismissed; Douglas Gordon Carey, soldier, adjourned for further inquiries: George Arthur Skelton, secretary, and Arnold Robert Turner, accountant (Booth, Macdonald and Company), decision reserved: Arthur Francis Kean, spray-gun painter, adjourned for review in two months; James W. Thin, foreman (Davis Gelatine (N.Z.), Ltd., and District Fire Controller), decision reserved: Hector Thomas Prebble, hotelkeeper, decision reserved; George McIntosh Bennett, soldier, decision reserved: John Vivian Barker, labourer, decision reserved: Leo Douglas Humphries, market gardener (J. Y. Alexander), adjourned for review in January; Charles Henry Anderson, milk vendor, adjourned sine die; Lawrence Raymond Poulson, market gardener, adjourned sine die; Gilbert Ernest Brooks, furniture maker, adjourned sine die: John Charles Haworth, plumber, adjourned sine die; Clarence Lyndon Piatara Christie, compositor (L. P. Christie), decision reserved; Bryant Edwin Ash, insurance officer (Norwich Union Fire Insurance), adjourned sine die; Edward George Musson, coffee stall proprietor, adjourned sine die; Cecil Booker, market gardener, adjourned sine die. Against service in the Home Guard appeals were dealt with as follows:—William Herbert Martin, release recommended, and Thomas Collett (Davis Gelatine, Ltd.), release recommended; Thomas Andrew Coulter, dairy inspector, decision reserved.