MILITARY TRAINING

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 11

MILITARY TRAINING

Postponements Of Service Of 16 applications for postponement of annual service training, all but two were granted by the Military Postponement Committee, which met in Christchurch yesterday. Those granted varied from a month’s postponement to a year. The pressure of work on farms accounted for four of the applications and related to this seasonal activity another four applications on behalf of carrier business drivers. Reserved decisions will be made in respect of five of the applicants. One application failed to appear. For the New Zealand Army, Major E. H. Poole said he appreciated that in the majority of cues heard yesterday the pressure'of seasonal work wu the chief complaint. While most applicants, or firms acting on behalf of applicants, sought alternative training camp dates more often than not in the winter, he said the Army wu training for a South-east Asian role. It seemed, he said, that everyone wu indispensable but the soldier. The following applicants had their training postponed until after February 28: D. D. Gamble, a driver, P. J. Gardner, a fanner. Until the end of March: R. M. Hamilton, a photographic processing assistant; R. Meiklejohn. Until the end of May: W. A. Mitchell, a driver; P. G. Walker and R. G. Wolfe, plasterers. For one yean M. J. BorocosHe and C. E. Redfern, <>■*» J- *> Honeybone, ends commercial traveller, N. H. Wilson, were both refused postponements. Reserved decisions will be given on appUcstions by G. Juries, a fish sputter: A. A. Smith and C. R. Walls, drivers; K. B. Smith, a fanner and D. K. Williams, a semiskilled worker in a pelt processing gang.