ARMED FORCES APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23970, 10 June 1943, Page 6

ARMED FORCES APPEALS

BOARD Claiming that the number of rabbits handled dally by his firm had increased by about- 1000 in the last season. Cyril James Buckley, a partner in a firm of rabbit merchants, appealed against Home Guard service in the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday. Mr E. A. Lee was chairman of the board, and with him were Messrs J. E. Jones and G. M. Hall. Mr W. F. Tracy represented the Crown. Buckley said that he worked on Saturdays and Sundays, and averaged an 80-hour or 90-hour week. The men engaged on skinning the rabbits, he said, were not as experienced as his assistants in previous years, and were called on to supply nearly all the fish shops and butchers in Christchurch with skinned rabbits daily. A skilled man would skin three or four rabbits a minute, he said. The firm’s weekly output of skinned rabbits was 14,000 or 15,000, which was the work done by five or six skinners. The appeal was dismissed, the appellant to be excused parades till September 30, which is about the end of the rabbit season, The board's decisions yesterday were as follows (all appellants are grade 1, unless otherwise stated); — Joseph Maxwell Powell, poultry farmer (Director of National Service), adjourned for review in six months; Tasman Thorpe Taylor, clerk (New Zealand Refrigerating Company), dismissed, appellant not to be called before July 31; John Richard Bowman, engineer (Bowman’s, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; * Alan Victor Gunn, freezing works employee (Mrs H. V. Webber, mother), adjourned for two months; Stanley Joseph Winfield, test room assistant (Municipal Electricity Department), adjourned for two months; Owen James Cunneen, farm-hand (N. Donald), dismissed, July 31; Percy Lament Johnson, chieesemaker (Barry's Bay Dairy Company), held over; William Edwards, textile mechanic (Director of National .Service), dismissed; Eric Warrener Chadwick (Home Guard), adjourned sine die, appellant to be transferred to E.P.S.; Randolph Haffenden, market gardener (Director of National Service), stood down for one month: Keith L. Fisher (2), soldier (Mrs R. E. Fisher, wife), appeal to be referred to the District Manpower Officer; Cyril James Buckley (H.G.), dismissed, appellant to be excused parades till September 30; Robert Stuart Latter, farm manager (E. P. H. Burbury), dismissed; Herbert Willis Ensor, dairy farm-hand (C. L. Ensor, father), adjourned pending result of medical reboard.