APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23941, 7 May 1943, Page 7

APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

NO. 1 BOARD’S DECISIONS

Appeals against service in the armed forces were heard at the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday, before Messrs E. A. Lee .(chairman), J. E Jones, and O. M. Hall. Mr W. F. Tracy appeared for the Crown. Decisions were given as follows:—Leslie Gason Smart (grade 1), presser (Twentieth Century Tailors), adjourned for review in two months; Benjamin Ride James (grade 1). accountant (Director of National Service), sine die; Ronald Bruce McNish (grade X), clerk (Director of National Service), to be reviewed in three months; Thomas Charles McGrath, farmer, dismissed; Matthew Glasgow (grade 1), assistant (Star Stores), adjourned for one month; Alfred Erhest Chatterton (grade 1), farmer (Director of National Service), adjourned for one month; John Irving Cook (grade 1). forest foreman (Director of National Service), adjourned for further information; Alexander Royce Greatbatch (grade 1), union secretary (State Forest Department), decision reserved; Euan Albert Clark (grade 1), farm-hand (A. H. Clark), appeal dismissed, not to be called up before June 30; Frederick George Ford (grade 1), to be reviewed in six months; Joseph Alexander Fleming (grade 1), packman (D. H. Brown, Ltd.), adjourned for one month; Raymond Edwin Bovle (grade 1), tractor driver (R. F. White), release recommended; Frederick Davies Price (g*nde 1), fitter and turner (W. H. Price and Son), held over for ond month; Alan Stanley Hobbs (grade 1), pattern maker (W. H. Price and Son), decision reserved; John Stephen McKegney (T.U.), (Barnet Glass Pcrdriau Rubber Company), adjourned for review later; Robert Shand Thomson (grade 1), miller (Sefton Flourmilling Company), decision reserved; Harry Arnold Pateman (grade 1). driver and miller (Sefton Flourmilling Company), decision reserved; Walter James Cardigan Paisley (T.U.), supervisor (Nugget Polish Company)', sine die; Philip John Howe (T.U.), superintendent stevedore (Kinsey and Company), sine die: Thomas Joyce (grade 1), kiln worker (Homebush Brick and Coal Company), adjourned for review later; Benjamin Bailey King (grade 1), farm manager (G. R. Macdonald), slrie die; Harry Pugh, yardman (Papanui Timber Company), sine die. Decisions for appeals against Home Guard service were as follows; Owen Francis Rowe, decision resolved; Lionel Robert Fuller Drury, adjourned for three months: Michael Leonard Hindin, student, dismissed, not to be called before December 1.

Reserved decisions were given as follows:—Edwin John Ward (T.U.), manager (T. G. Laughton), adjourned sine die; Fritz Raymond Baldwin (grade II). furnisher (A. D. Tucker), sinfe die; David Anderson Froude (grade I), die and tool maker (Scbtt Bros), sine die; H. R. Armon (grade I), foreman (Scott Bros.), sine die; Norman Henry Hellewell (grade 1), foreman fitter and turner (Scott Bros.), dismissed, not to be called before June 30; Douglas Haigh Henman (grade I), machine shop foreman (Scott Bros.), dismissed, not to be called before June 30; Lawrence Stuthridge (grade I), carpenter (N.Z. Refrigerating Company), dismissed; A. F. Kean (grade I), spraygun painter (Booth, Macdonald, Ltd.), sine die; Vernon Thomas Alexander Gray (grade I), painter (Booth, Macdonald), dismissed: George Frederick Southerwood (grade I), machine moulder (Booth, Macdonald), dismissed; Thomas Rattray Ayson (grade I), moulder (Scott Bros.), dismissed; George Robinson (grade I), machine shop supervisor (Scott Bros.), dismissed, not to be called before June 30; L. A. Harland (grade I), foreman (Scott Bros.), adjourned for review in June; James John Burson (grade I), moulder (Scott Bros.), sine die; E. R. Fowler (grade, I), fitter and turner (Hamilton and Company), dismissed, not to be called Be* fore July 31; Edmund Gardiner Amyes, farm worker (A. E. Amyes), sine die; Alfred Charles Amyes (grade I), farm hand (A. E. Amyes), dismissed, not to be called before June 30.

Decisions, previously reserved, Were given as follows for appeals against Home Guard service:—Colin Campbell Anderson (grade I), farmer, dismissed; Thomas Faulkner, engine-driver, dismissed; Reynolds Garnet Dale (grade I), crane-driver (Lyttelton Harbour Board), dismissed; Arthur Parke (grade I), crane-driver (Lyttelton Harbour Board), dismissed; Alfred Edward Balnton (grade I), cranedriver (Lyttelton Harbour Board), dismissed.

DECISIONS OF NO. 2 BOARD

An appeal by C. S. Donald for his brother, Ronald Donald (grade 1), a farm-hand, was heard yesterday at a sitting of the No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board, over which Mr J. S. Barnett presided. C, S. Donald said that he was in business as a (dairy farmer, a dealer in cattle and sheep, that he grazed add fattened sheep, and also bred horses. Although his breeding of horses wAS designed for the trotting track, a very large proportion of them proved unsuitable for racing and were trained for general utility purposes. The appeal was adjourned sine die. reservist to join the Home Guard. Sinclair, Melbourne, and Company appealed for the retention of the services of William Janies T. Maunder (grade 2), a turner, and stated that in doing so they had the support of the Navy Department. A representative of the firm said that during the last three or four months Maunder had been working on an average 60 to 70 hours a week. The case was adjourned sine die and reservist was exempted from Home Guard servic'd-. Appeals for a number of drivers were made by the North Canterbury Transport Company. In the cases of the following reservists, sine die adjournments were granted:—Brinsley Ernest W. Parker (3). driver; Gordon David Addie (3), driver; Arthur William Ford (T.U.), driver: Harry Raymond Hassall (1), driver; Edgar Ronald Doody (1), driver: Ronald Allen Chinnery (1), driver; Gerald Morris (1), manager: James W. Hancock (1), depot manager; John William Borrell (1), depot manager; Geoffrey Leon Gilbert (1), driver, The appeal for Thomas H, Chinnery (1) depot manager, was dismissed, reservist not to be called before July 31. The Christchurch Tramway Board appealed for the following:—Norman Clifford Hoddinott (1), adjuster; Albert Vernon Bedwell (2), assistant engineer; Harry Fisher Unwin (1), fitter; Frank Henry Nuttridge (I), acting adjuster; Leicester Samuel A. Cleland (1), conductor; William John Whitford (1), motorman; Frederick George Lee (1). motorman; Edgar Newnham George (1), motorman; Arthur Victor Eastrlck (1), motorman; James Thompson Stoddart (1), linesman; Lloyd Walter Randall (1). conductor; Tpm May (3), motorman; Peter George Keller (T.U.), motorman; Charles Sneddon R. White (T.U.), ■ motorman; Alexander Boy (2), tamper; Victor Alan Ritchie (2), motorman; Eric Henry Robinson (2), motorman; Percy Frank Small (2), motorman; Cyril McEntee (3), motorman; James Woodley Turpin (3), clerk; William Joseph Williams (4). motorman. These cases were adjourned sine die, and will be brought up again in a general review of the tramway service.

Other decisions were:—Cecil Roy Davenport (grade 1), carpenter (L. B. Davenport), dismissed; John Thomas Sutton (T.U.), clerk iNicholls, North, and Nicholls), dismissed, reservist not to be called before August 31: Hugh Argyle Fisher (1), bank clerk (Bank of New Zealand), dismissed, reservist not to be called before June 30; Herbert Edgar Best (1), bank clerk (Bank of New Zealand), dismissed, reservist not to be called before June 30; Garrick Gregg (1), farm-hand (L, Ashwell), adjourned for medical reexamination; Arthur Houghton (1), farmhand (W. Hayes and Son), dismissed, reservist not to be called before August 31; Walter H. Logan (1), cabinetmaker (Lomak Furniture Company), adjourned sine die; D. S. Drewery (1), cabinetmaker (Lomak Furniture Company), dismissed; Alfred Thomas Taylor (1), brass finisher (W. H. Price and Son), adjourned sine die; Patrick Brett B. Nixon, farmer, adjourned sine die and excused Home Guard service; Edwin Lawrence Jones (1), carpenter (R. Kennedy), decision reserved.