ARMED FORCES APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23915, 6 April 1943, Page 6

ARMED FORCES APPEALS

DECISIONS OF NO. 2 BOARD

Several appeals by firms for the retention in their service of women who had volunteered for the Armed Services were heard before the No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday. Mr J. S. Barnett presided, and with him were Mr S. L. Wright and Mr G. T. Thurston. Beath and Company, Ltd., appealed for Mary Katherine G. Wilson, a milliner, who had volunteered for the Armed Services. Mrs Wall, representing Beath and Company, Ltd., said that the millinery department had already lost 11 employees, four of whom had joined the Army. Millinery, she said, was declared "halfessential." Wilson said she was anxious to join the Navy. The appeal was dismissed. R. D. L. Collett appealed for exemption from service of Jean Hamilton Miller, a chemist’s assistant. Collett said he would not like to stop Miss Miller from helping in the war effort, but as his own son, whom he had had in his employ. was due for overseas service and it was impossible to get anyone to replace him, he was bound to make the appeal. He would be well satisfied if reservist were released for three months so that he could make an attempt to train another assistant. The board said the request was a reasonable one, and an adjournment of three months was granted. A sine die adjournment was granted Pamela Jean Errington, cake-packer, on an appeal lodged by Marldon, Ltd. An appeal by E. F. Bennett, for Robert M. Turnpenny, • a cycle mechanic, was held over pending the receipt of certain Information from the Air Force authorities. In evidence given before the board, a letter from the Air Secretary said that Turnpenny was grade 1, aged 19. and a fully qualified radio-telephone operator. The Air Force was not prepared to release him. Bennett said he was surprised that the Air Force had sent in such a report. Turnpenny knew nothing about telephones and had never handled a radio “set. Turnpenny was not grade 1. The Air Force report was all wrong, and he suggested that the reservist should be brought before the board and given a chance to tell the facts. It was decided to adjourn the appeal to give appellant a chance to secure full particulars from the Air Force. Other decisions were given as follows: Donald Innes (grade 3), soldier (Pannell and Company), release recommended; A. J. Wagner (1), carpenter (W. P. Glue), dismissed: F. B Webb, soldier, overseas service postponed till June 30: Charles Quinn (2). electrical fitter (Municipal Electricity Department), adjourned sine die: Lester Edward Rol (1). shift engineer (Christchurch Tramways Board), adjourned sine die; Reginald C. Hanham (1), rough stuff cutter (Duckworth. Turner and Company. Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Charles L. Guy (1), vulcaniser (J. J. Niven and Company, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Leonard George Hadler (1). toolmaker (H. C. Urlwin. Ltd.), service postponed till June 30; Gordon Robert Boundy (1), Thomas Ronald Hooper (1), John Stephen O’Loughlin (1), carpenters (B. Moore and Sons), dismissed, service postponed till July 31: N. R. Walker (IT. soldier (Electrical Engineering Service), dismissed: R. Cornish (2), soldier_(Andersens, Ltd.), release recommended.

INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE

Appeals against decisions of the Manpower Officer at Christchurch were heard by the Industrial Manpower Committee yesterday. The members were Messrs K. G. Archer (chairman), H. Lee, and H. E. Denton, and N. R. Stanton (secretary). A successful appeal against refusal of permission to leave the employ of the North Canterbury Hospital Board at Rotherham, was made by John Henry Simpson, a gardener and porter, who applied on medical grounds. The board supported Lorna Marjorie Haines, who appealed against refusal of permission to leave J. Gadsden and Company, Ltd. The appeal was allowed, appellant stating that she was going to domestic work. Appeals against granting their employers permission to terminate their employment by G. M. Julius, of the Springston Hotel, and J. H. Coffey, of New Zealand Railways, were struck out on the non-appearance of appellants. An adjournment for medical examination was granted H. L. R. Whittle, when he appealed against refusal of permission to terminate employment with H.. W. Smith. A similar decision was made in an appeal made by G. Manning for William James Gallop against refusal of permission to terminate his employment with Atkinson and Sons, Ltd. A medical examination was also ordered In the case of Zenda Tait, who appealed against direction as a machinist to the employ of F. Dunn and Company, Ltd. An appeal by K. N. McGlllivray and T. Nuttall for Miriam E. Peppier, against her direction to be a domestic in the employ of the North Canterbury Hospital Board was allowed.

The following appeals were dismissed: Alfred George Trigance. against reinstatement in the Post and Telegraph Department, Christchurch; in a change of work at a reduced salary; Cecil William Churchill, railway surfaceman, of Lyttelton, against transfer to Hundalee; Mrs J. M. Bank against direction as a nursing aid to the Jubilee Home; Mary Neill Dell, against direction to be a domestic at the Cashmere Sanatorium.