APPEAL BOARD

Evening Star, Issue 24005, 2 October 1941, Page 6

APPEAL BOARD

PUBLIC INTEREST CASES Tho time of the Appeal Board this morning was mainly taken up with the hearing of a number of appeals by companies and farmers for various essential men on the grounds that their enlistment was contrary to the public interest. The board consisted of Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. (chairman), and Messrs J. Price and H. Hodgson. The Dunedin Engineering and Steel Company Ltd. appealed on behalf of Cecil Kennedy Miller, who they claimed was indispensable in electric furnace work.—The appeal was adjourned sine die. The appeal of the Union Steam Ship Company for Nestor Taylor, a greaser, on the grounds of public interest, was adjourned sine die. Messrs J. and A. P. Scott Ltd., on the grounds of public interest, appealed for Gordon Hall Driver and Reginald Matthew Fea. For Driver, a key man, the appeal was adjourned sine die, subject to his doing Territorial service. For Fea the appeal was dismissed, with the condition that he was not called up before January 31, when he will finish his apprenticeship. Sargood, Son, and E_wen Ltd. appealed for one of their clickers, Thomas E. Law.—The appeal was adjourned sine die. William Charles Hale, a grocer, appealed against his own enlistment on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship.—The appeal was dismissed on condition Hale was not called up before December 31. John William Sheppard, a farmer from the Peninsula, appealed for his son, Raymond Vivian Sheppard, on the two grounds of public interest and undue hardship.—The appeal was adjourned sine die, conditional on Sheppard serving in the Home Guard at Portobello. James Hamilton Mitchell, a railway servant, of Wylie’s Crossing, entered an appeal on his own behalf on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship affecting his father.—James Parish Mitchell supported him on both grounds. Mitchell worked his father’s farm.—Decision was reserved. John Lament Ford, a dairy farmer, of Pine Hill, appealed for John Driver Ford on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship.—The appeal was adjourned sine die. William Henry Duke appealed on the grounds of undue hardship against the enlistment of his son, William John Duke, a labourer at the tileries.—Decision was reserved. Andrew Beatson appealed for Thomas Rendall Beatson on the grounds of undue hardship.—The appeal, an appeal for time, was dismissed, subject to Beatson not being called up before November 30.