APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24052, 14 September 1943, Page 2

APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE

DECISIONS OF NO. 10 BOARD

An appeal by the Lyttelton Borough Council for Arthur Cedrick Schenkel, described as a forester, was heard by tne No. 10 Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday, Mr R. A. Cuthbert presiding. Schenkel. said J. Thompson, the actingtown clerk of Lyttelton, who appeared in support of th-j appeal, was a married man, aged 36, -/Ith two children. His work consisted of trimming trees and lopping off branches, and laying out flower beds. “Laying out flower beds is hardly a war work, is it?” asked Mr G. M. Hall. A contractor could do the forestry work in considerably less time,” he said. “Without disputing the harbour board s classification of the man,” said Mr cutnbert, “you could really call him a gardener.” , „ Thompson emphasised the importance of Schenkel’s work in the Lyttelton Fire Brigade, of which there were only nine members at present. Even when a big fire occurred, they had never been able to muster more than 15 firemen, Including volunteers of the Emergency Fire Service. There was an average of nearly one call a week on the brigade. After reserving its decision on the case the board agreed to adjourn the appeal sine die.

Decisions announced yesterday were as follows (all appellants grade 1,, unless otherwise stated): —

Adjourned sine die: Karl Warrington Dale, Alan Littlejohn, radio technicians (Director of National' Service); Ronald James Dailey, farmhand (S. T. Dailey); Sydney David Patchett, farmer (appellant); David Leonard Meadows, farmer (appellant); Arthur Edward Payne, farmer (appellant); Cyril Hardwick Heywood, dairy farmer (appellant): David Malcolm Halliday, farmer (appellant): William Quigley, farmer (appellant): John Lord, farmer (J. Lord, sen.); Alan Clarence Sloss, farmer (appellant): John Allan Wright, farm hand (A. W. Adams): Joseph Tabah, furnaceman (Director of National Service): Reginald Clifford Chaston, Frederick Kinley, Walter Batiste Mllesi, moulders (T. Waddell and Son, Ltd.); lan Douglas Constable, farm hand (J. C. Constable): Arthur Cedrick Schenkel, forester (Lyttelton Borough Council). Other decisions: Leslie Harold Truman, coremaker (T. Waddell and Son, Ltd.), Frank Percival Gay (temporarily unfit), pharmaceutist (Director of National Service), adjourned for review in three months: Maurice Douglas Chapman, machine operator (Cyclone Fence and Gate Co.), dismissed, appellant not to be called before November 1; Laughlan Ross Griffen, driver (Long and Ashton), adjourned for review in March, 1944.

MANPOWER APPEAL COMMITTEE

CASES HEARD YESTERDAY The Christchurch Manpower Appeal Committee sat yesterday. Mr K. G. Archer presided, and associated with him were Mr H. Lee and Mr P. J. Kelly. Yvonne Jean Giles, aged 19, appealed against th 6 decision of the Manpower Officer, who had refused her permission to terminate her employment with the North Canterbury Hospital Board at Burwood Hospital. After attempts had been made to induce the appellant to return voluntarily to her employment, the board upheld her appeal. . , . Mr S. R Dacre, for the appellant, stated that the appeal was on the ground of ill-health, and he admitted that she had left the hospital. She was now looking after a woman, he said, who was suffering from the effects of a stroke. Mrs K. T. Compigne, matron at the Burwood Hospital, said that Nurse Giles had completed 18 months of her two years’ course as a nursing aid, and. m the interests of the whole of the community, as well as in her own interests, she thought it should be completed. Afer discussing the situation with the appellant, however, at the suggestion of the chairman, the matron agreed that it was little use forcing the girl to return against her inclination. An appeal by Dons Frances Dennis against the decision of the Manpower Officer in refusing her permission to terminate her employment with the Cashmere Sanatorium was dismissed. The appeal was on the ground of ill-health, and she was advised by the chairman to consult the medical officer at the sanatorium. An appeal by Sydney James Harker, who had been refused permission to terminate his employment with Suckling Bros., was also dismissed. The committee held that Harker was doing an important job from which he could not be released, particularly as in a few months he might be called up for military service. . , . The committee decided that Mrs Christina Hensley, who had been refused permission to terminate her employment with the Federal Hotel, should be mllowed to return to the clothing industry, and that she be released as soon as she had fonnd suitable employment, in a factory. The. appeal was on the ground of ill-health,-arid the appellant , stated that she ftirind the work in the hotel too hard. Mr T. G.Lewis, the proprietor, opposed the appeal on the ground of staff shortage. _ It was also decided that Harold James Frisk, who had been refused permission to terminate his employment with Woolston Tanneries, Ltd., at Woolston, should be released’ as from September 27 in view of medical evidence tendered concerning his home circumstances. The appellant stated that he was a member of the Waterside Workers* Union, and was anxious to obtain employment on the wharves at Lyttelton. The appeal was lodged, however, on the ground of his wife’s ill-health. Mr H. G. Kilpatrick appeared for the appellant, and Dr, R. O. Page for Woolston Tanneries, Ltd. An appeal by Charles Alexander Pascoe, clerk, against being refused permission to terminate his employment with the Lyttelton Harbour Board, was allowed. The appellant stated that he had been offered a position by the Union Steam Ship Company. The appeal was opposed by the board on the ground of staff shortage. The chairman stated that the position with the Union Company appeared to be more acute than that at the Harbour Board. Mr N. E. Taylor appeared in support of the appeal. The committee also allowed the appeal of the Christchurch Tramway Board (Mr J. D. Hutchison) against the direction of the Manpower Officer in ordering C. A. B. Stevenson, a welder, to employment with Messrs P. and D. Duncan, at Christchurch. It was stated on behalf of the board that there were only three welders now in its employ, and it was essential that Stevenson’s services should be retained in the public interest. An appeal by.Leslie Craighead against the direction of Rona Langdon Campbell to employment as a machinist with M. O’Brien and Company, Ltd., was dismissed, The appellant stated that Miss Campbell had been in his employ manufacturing slippers for five years, and he regarded her as most efficient. On behalf of O’Brien and Company, it was stated that she was required as a machinist for making boots. “I am not going to the Job. I would rather do a fortnight in the big house,” Ernest McGeorge told the committee, when he appealed against direction to employment as a,labourer with the Barnett Glass Perdriau Rubber Company of New Zealand, at Christchurch. The appellant added that he had received sufficient notices from the Manpower Officer to "paper a room.” The appeal was dismissed.