WATERSIDERS IN HOME GUARD

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23818, 11 December 1942, Page 6

WATERSIDERS IN HOME GUARD

APPEAL BOARD’S DECISIONS

“These appeals by waterside workers against Home Guard service have caused the board a good deal of concern, said Mr E. A. Lee, chairman of the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board, in announcing some reserved decisions yesterday. “It appeared that many of the men work very long hours at certain periods, and the board was anxious that no hardship should be imposed on them by obligation to attend parades. On me other hand, it did appear that at times parades could be attended without any hardship, and the possibility of such a large body ot men receiving training was of great 'importance.” After a conference with the authorities concerned, the board had been told that arrangements were complete to ensure training without hardship, Mr Lee said, and in view of this, the appeals would be dismissed, but this did not prejudice the appeals of watersiders who mifint plead hardship from other causes than their work. The names of the appellant workers were: —A. Gemmell, E. S. Marshall, James Smalley, Ernest Hammill, S. J. Giblin. Ernest Franks, L. A. Gilmour, and J. T. Suggitt. _ , . Decisions on other Home Guard appeals were:—Joseph Bright (labourer), release recommended; C. J. Thornton (wharf labourer), transferred to second division; F. G. Raynor, recommended for transfer to ambulance section: Fisher and Company, for Lester Walter Keetley, adjourned sine die; Cecil Huia Shields, market gardener, recommendation for training to be limited to April-August; Lester Lawrence Brocherie (farm manager) service postponed until March; Charles Gordon Clark, orchardist, to be transferred to the E.P.S. General Service Appeals

The following appeals against general service were adjourned sine die; 1. Bradshaw, for Owen Robert McCabe, coffee stall assistant: Marldon, Ltd., for R. J. B. Heed, pastrycook; Harold G. Broadhurst, dairy farmer; Richard Thomson, farmer: W. R. Burns, for R. D. Gorric, smelter: F. H. Shipley, for A. L Shipley (farmer); L. C. Sisson, for W. J. Case, orchard worker; C. F. Coulter, for H. T. Coulter, wireworker; J. Schimanski, farm worker; Horace V. G. Curtis, farmer; George Angus St. Clair Bone (on medical grading); Wilkinson and Wilkinson, for Herbert Leslie Wilkinson, accountant; Alder and Mackay, Ltd., for R. G. Arnould. gas-meter maker; Drapery and General Importing Company. Ltd., for F. H. L. Clapshaw, assistant manager; Ballins’ Breweries, Ltd., for Basil Howard Heald (works foreman). Other cases:—Christchurch Car Exchange, Ltd., for J. F. Peterson, manager, service postponed until March; O. j Dickson, for Alan Lester Moore, apprentice cabinetmaker, decision reserved; C. McClelland, for Desmond McClelland, farm-hand, decision reserved; O. F. G. E. Wheeler, milk vendor, held over for further evidence; Harold Petherham, dairy farmer, reserved. Reserved Decisions

The following reserved decisions were announced; P. Kilroy. adjourned for review in February; P. T. Evans, dismissed, the reservist to render non-combatant service; J. Bird, adjourned sine die; W. H. Blackler and H. O. Vigers, both dismissed, the reservists not to be called before February 28.

NO. 2 APPEAL BOARD’S

DECISIONS

“It the Army wants these men, it will have to go without the huts,' said D. M. Nielsen, of the Public Works Department, appearing before the No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday in support of an appeal by B. Moore and Sons, for three carpenters. Nielsen said the position had altered recently, and the Army Department had not the facilities to supervise the erection of army huts, which in some places were being put up in exposed places. With the present supply of carpenters, the contracts would take about three months, he said. The men appealed for were T. R. Hooper, G. R. Boundy, and J. S. O Loughlin, and in each case postponement of service until April was granted.

Other Decisions The following appeals were adjourned sine die: Director of National Service for D Rollinson (linesman), E. C. Clayton, R. Hodgkinson, and J. A. Archer (substation operators): Perfection Ice Cream Company for A. L. Mugford; G. McClatchie and Company for G. S. Clark (release recommended), and J. D. O’Connor (yardman); Booth, Macdonald and Company, for A. E. Falcon, machine moulder, and Wilfred F, Spong, clerk; Archbold Bros.. Ltd., for L. H. Brown, secretary; W. H. Harris, Tinsmiths, Ltd., for F. G. Duncan, clerk; Christchurch City Council for R. E. Cutler, clerk. Release from the Army until the dates given was recommended in the following cases:—Dalgety and Company, Ltd., for W. Steele (April 30); A. and T. Burt, Ltd., for Leonard Dunmill, plumber (March 31); C. S. Luney for J. F. Anderson (February 28); Wheat Research Institute for I, D. Sanders (for two months): International Harvester Company, for R. A. Clark (February 28); Anderson and Bell for R. L Round (for three months): Aitken and Gillespie, Ltd., tor Ivan Timms (from January to March); B. F. Morris for W. T. McCahon (until February 28); T. H. Green and Company, Ltd., for G. H, McDonald (until April 30). Postponement of service was granted in the following appeals: A. and T. Burt, Ltd., for B. A. Fry (until March); W. Sidney for Percival J. Copp, storekeeper (until February); British Pavements, Ltd., for Lucien Brocherie, driver (until March); Vacuum Blue Ladder Company, for F H. Harden, cleaner (until March). Other cases; Lomak Furniture Company for Delby S. Brewery and Walter H. Logan (cabinetmakers), held over; A. and T. Burt, Ltd., for N. H. J. Turner (plumber), dismissed: J. C. Wallace for James E. Charman (barman), dismissed; Deyell and Company for E. F. van der Veen (soldier), held over.