MEN FOR TRAINING

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 11

MEN FOR TRAINING

THE SECOND BALLOT

WELLINGTON APPEALS

ADJOURNMENTS MADE

The Wellington Man-Power Committee has granted adjournments sine die in 68 cases of seafaring men drawn by ballot for Territorial training. Sixty-two of the men were employees of the Union Steam Ship Company, five employees of the Holm Shipping Company, and one an employee of the Anchor Shipping Company. The appeals were all by the employers and carried the endorsement of the Shipowners' Federation, where such endorsement was necessary.

Mr. M. F. Luckie presided, and the other members of the committee were Mr. R. Cable and Mr. A. Parlane, deputising for Mr. E. E. Canham. Certificates by his Grace Archbishop O'Shea accompanied appeals on behalf of 32 Roman Catholic priests, Marist Brothers, and others in Holy Orders. In all these cases adjournments sine die on the ground of public interest were granted. The committee dealt similarly with one appeal by the Baptist Union, three by the Anglican Church, and one by the Salvation Army in respect of ministers of religion, and, also granted an adjournment sine die in the appeal of the V.M.C.A. in respect of its residential secretary in Wellington.

Altogether over 130 cases, the great majority concerning men drawn' ih the second ballot,- were disposed of today.

Cases in which adjournments sine die on the ground of public interest were granted included appeals on behalf of four constables and two members of Hutt Valley fire brigades.