APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23971, 11 June 1943, Page 7

APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

DECISIONS OF NO. X ld BOARD >- Seven appeals for sawmill workers, six i* of them grade I men, were heard by the Jf No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board yesi- terday, when Mr E. A. Lee presided. A raC. presentative of one of the firms supportio ing the appeals said that the depletion in i- staff suffered by his mill when the fore, estry unit was first formed had never a been fully made up. Ninety per cent, of the work being done at present was an n cases for bispuits, boxes for boots, and on similar articles required for the forces overseas. Private enterprise, it was stated, .. had to go by the board. The difficulties .. of replacing sawmill workers were also emphasised. In the last two weeks, the representative said, two men, claiming to have had experience in stacking timber, . had been taken on by the mill and tried ■j out, but were rejected. All the men 0 being appealed for had been in the trade e for at least three years. ,r Mr Lee, in announcing the board's decision, emphasised that the employees 5' were grade I men, and urgently required e by the Army. “The appeals will be adls journed in the meantime,” he said, ‘‘but e you cannot hope to hold these men ini' definitely.” Decisions announced by the board In > its sitting yesterday were as follows (all a appellants are grade I unless otherwise s stated) Raymond Henry Blackmore, d flourmiller (Model Flourmilling Company, - Rangiora), adjourned sine die; Desmond John Fagan, boot finisher (Director of e National Service), withdrawn; Raymond . Patrick Miller, electrician (Lyttelton Bor--0 ough Council), adjourned for review in . one month: Alfred Cyril Barndon. elec- , trlclan (New Zealand Water Heating n Company), adjoprned sine die; Charles 1 Gordon Riach, electrician (J. Y. AlexJ ander), dismissed, appellant not to be called before July 81: Henry Mercer Stevens, farmer (H. G. Stevens, father), dis- , missed, appellant not to be called before 1 August 31: William Roland Hewett, Laur- ‘ ence Dorrington Wilson, and Gordon Willi 11am Rump, manufacturing chemists (H. ® F. Stevens), stood down, one of the ap- * pellants to be released by the firm; James ! > Henry Michael Moorhead, farm engineer 1 and assistant farm manager (D. Moorhead), mobilisation postponed till August f 31; H. H. Bruce (H.G,), adjourned sine s die: Frederick Alexander Ward, mill--1 wright (H. Simon, Ltd-), adjourned sine s die; Noel Arthur Stanley Cairns, mill i hand (Director of National Service), adi journed sine die; Charles Graham Beecn Suckling, storekeeper (C. M. Suckling, - father), adjourned sine die: Eric Zance - Cornwall, factory machinist. Herbert - Allan Long, tailer-out, Robert Henry Mans nlng, timber feller, Robert Blackmore Edgeworth, timber worker, Kevin Hugh . Shanks, serviceman, Jack Morris Neville ! (temporarily unfit), bushman (Director * of National Service), adjourned sine die: j Percy Lament Johnson, eheesemakar . (Barry’s Bay Dairy Company), adjourned . for two months,

i DECISIONS OF NO. 2 I BOARD Appeals against service were heard yes- ■ terday by the No. 2 Armed Farces Ap--1 peal Board: Messrs J. S. Barnett, S. L. : Wright, and O, T. Thurston. Mr E. D. 1 Thompson represented the Crown, i The appeals of 19 men employed by British pavements, Ltd,, were reviewed by the board. Decisions were as follows: Ronald R. K. Altken (2), truck driver, adjourned sine die; Maurice C. Burke (1), truck driver, dismissed, not to be called before August 31; Sydney A, Chldgley, roller-driver (I), adjourned sine die; Robert J. Cornelius (2), mechanic and driver, adjourned sine die; Colin W. Foster (1), grader driver, adjourned sine die; Leonard N. Hadfleld (I), excavator operator, dismissed, not to he called before August Si: Linton C, Barker, truck' driver, dlamissed, not to be called before August 31; Daniel Higgins (1), foreman mechanic, adjourned sine die; John N. Knowles (I), mechanical loader-driver, dismissed, not to be called before August 31; Herbert B. Lill (1), grader-driver, adjourned sine die; John T. Lill (1), foreman, adjourned sine die: Peter M. LIU (1), motor mechanic. dismissed, not to be called before August 31; Malcolm R. D, Palmer (1), grader, dismissed, not to be called before August 31; George S. Reinke (1), excavator operator, adjourned sine die; Alan E. Budgen (3), plant foreman, adjourned sine die; Sidney W. A. Mitchell (2), tractor driver, adjourned sine die; Eric J. Walker (2), mechanical plant operator, adjourned sine die; Rolfe C. Neville (1), company, manager, .gdjouwed sine, die; Leonard H. Hale (1), mechanical engineer and drpyghtstnfiP.. adjourned sine die. ' ■ " ‘ ■ Decisions in other appeals were as follows; Harold William Buist (I), plumber (Dann Brothers, Ltd.), dismissed, reservist not to be called before September 30; S. D. Tarrant (I), brasfcmouider'( W. Toomey and Company)’ adjourned for review in three monther Robert Gladstone Simpson (appeal by Director of National Service against'Air■TOrca service) (I), electrical wireman, adjourned sine die; Charles Austin Hayton (2), market gardener (R. Hussey), adjourned Sine die; Alfred C. Hill (application for release from camp by Mrs G. J. Hill), dismissed; Colin Mends Robertson (1), application for release from camp (Co-op. Lingerie Company), adjourned sine die; A. G. Rogers (l), plumber, application for release from camp (Vale and Company), release for two months recommended; Robert Lester Brown (against Air Force service by Scott Brothers, Ltd.), dismissed; Alymer Leslie Mpoar, electrician (G. C. Beaumont), appeal held over; two months’ extension of leave sought by John Laurence Fraser (1), agricultural contractor (G. A. Knowles), dismissed; W. C. Johnstone (1), extension of leave sought (W. A. Mclntcsh), adjourned sine die, to serve in Home Guard; Harry Teplitzky (3), against Air Force service (branch manager), dismissed, not to be called before September 30; Colin Roderick Noel Mundy (1), market gardener, adjourned for review in three months; George Melvin Batstone (1), store manager and baker (G. Batstone). adjourned sine die; Maurice Arnold Broadhurst (1), carrier, ddourned for three months to obtain replacement; Frederick William Luscombe Davison (1), linotype mechanic (Whit* combe and Tombs, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Cecil Claude Austin Barnard (3), grocer, adjourned sins die; A. C. Davies, irucker (Director of National Service), adjourned sine die; Arthur B. Berry (1), brass moulder (W, H. Price and Son), appeal held over for one week; Ralph Smith (1), farm hand (M. Spencer-Bower), held over; Leonard Walter Blakemore (1), farmer (Director of National Service), adjourned sine die; John Augustus Loffhagen (t.u.), teamster, adjourned for review in three months; A. C. Helliwell, appeal against overseas service, reservist not to be sent overseas before September 30.