Postponements Granted By Committee

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31247, 20 December 1966, Page 13

Postponements Granted By Committee

There had been a heavy increase of applications for military training postponements this year, especially from the farming community, the secretary of the Military Postponements Committee (Mr T. C. Currie) said yesterday. Mr Currie said that farmers had great difficulty in obtaining labour during the busy summer months when annual army camps were held. “There is no casual labour available,” he said. “This is regardless of how much money the individual farmer is prepared to pay.”

Mr Currie said that hardship, caused through labour shortage, was the basis of most of the applications for postponements heard by the committee (Messrs J. R. Williams, C. R. Thomas, E. R. Clark and W. J. Moore) yesterday. The committee granted applications for postponement from: Peter Raymond Blackmore, Douglas James Catherwood, Peter James Gardner, Richard Montgomery Hamilton, Melvyn William Hansen, John Edward Holm, Anthony

Perkin (recommendation of February 1966 confirmed), Allan Arthur Smith, Delwyn Arthur Stewart, Norman Charles Wickins, Richard Maxwell Wyllie, Graham Leo Croft, Brian James Topp and K. B. Judson.

Applications from John Evan Hunt and Graham Desmond Johnstone were adjourned for further evidence. The committee dismissed applications from Robin Murray Densem, Peter John Dearsley and J. R. Hunter.