ARMED FORCES

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 October 1942, Page 6

ARMED FORCES

APPEALS TO BOARD The No. 2 Arm rd Forces Appeal Board began a three and a-half day sitting in Greymouth yesterday afternoon, when 66 casas were listed for consideration. Mi' W. Meldruna presided, with him being Messrs P. J. McLean and A. Panther. All appeals were in respect of mining employees and were on the grounds of public interest. Decisions were:— Adjourned sine die. —William Ernest Currie, miner (Currie and Party): Thomas Dodd Gray, miner (Harrison & Party); Robert Hambley, collier (own appeal); Albert Edward Stuart, miner, and Mervyn William Thomas, trucker (Stuart and Party); Thomas Matthew Shadbolt, George William Nuttali, miners, Amos Grindle, fitter, Kenneth Henry Mountford and Alexander Howden, boys (Blackball State Mines); James Lindley, rope road worker, Benjamin Meikle, miner, Stanley Perrin, miner, William Clark, trucker (Paparoa Coal Co., Ltd.); Joshua Stevenson Tinning, working manager, Francis Tinning, and Allan Pattinson, miners (Tinning and Party); Edward Henderson, miner, Wilfred Coates, miner, Richard George Martin, mining timber supplier, John Patrick Magee, trucker, Norman Short, spare deputy, John Senior, Ralph Rothera, miners, and James Thompson, pumpman (Grey Valley Collieries); Francis Adams, shiftman, Ernest Richard Hope, trucker, James Jackson, miner, Hugh Hasson, trucker, Andrew Adamson, trucker, Francis Adams, shiftman, William Menzies, miner, Percy Maughan, deputy, William Donald •Williams, trucker, .Geoffrey Vincent, tipper, Arnold Chester Varco, miner (Brunner Collieries, Ltd.); Allan Erskine, diamond driller, Charles Henry Dowling, hewer, William Forbes Ellis, trucker, James Joseph Haddock, shiftman, Robert John Fisher, boiler fireman, Mervyn Arthur Gage, trucker, Donald Butler, stable man, James Robert Armstrong, head timber man, William Amois miner, Ernest Henry Smith, hewer, Edward Desmond Sheehan, shiftman, William Francis Reid, boiler attendant, John Roderick Warren, miner, Herbert Tinnion, hewer, James Sontgen, shiftman, Norman George Griffiths, miner, John Keenan, hewer, James Gibb, hewer, James Morrow Gray, shiftman, Isaac Herbert Cairney, hewer, Thomas Brown, shiftman, Norman Burn, hewer, Robert Bruce Brown, trucker, James Reid, hewer, Arthur Edward Watson, hewer, Richard Moffat Thompson, shot firer, Robert Bruce Steele, trucked, James Colburn Sweeney, bins mechanic and relieving winding engineer (State Coal Mines). Appeal dismissed.—Vincent Kevan Freeman, winch driver and trucker, who opposed an appeal by the State Coal Mines.

Stood down for a later sitting.— William Ralph Murphy, trucker (State Coal Mines). SAWMILL CASES

When the Board resumed to-day it had 76 cases to consider, including 53 in respect of sawmill employees, the majority lodged by the West Coast Sawmillers’ Association (Mr. J. S. Robertson). Decisions in the mill cases were:—

Adjourned sine die. —Robert James Atkinson, mill docker; William Atkinson, head yardman: Ernest Becker, mill manager; Reginald Biddington, tramlayer; Patrick Keith Brenton, loco trolleyman; Alexander John Brownlee, mill manager, Alfred Leslie Budd, bushman; Samuel Allen Barrows, slabby; Frederick William Campbell, stacker; Robert Joseph Chamberlain, engine driver; Albert Cowan, sawyer; Charles William Crook, leading bushman; James Joseph Cummin, breaker down; John Joseph Doolhn, fiddler; Samuel Downing, mill hand; Domenico De Filippi, bushman: Robert Joseph Jeffcott, breaker down; Henry Jones leading tramwayman; Albert John Kennedy, bushman; James Wilfred Kerr, yardman; Alfred Marshall, head machinist; Peter James Molloy, mill hand; Claude James Morel, bushman; Albert Miles, McMeekan, labourer; Gilbert Hans Nissen, yard foreman; Arthur Victor Ross, mill hand; Cecil Louis Friend, fiddler; John Thomas Gibbs, sawyer; Carl Henry Gillman, bushman; Alfred Norman Gilmore, docker; George James Growcott, bushman; Albert Charles Hannah, bushman; Oscar Avalon Hay, mill manager; Thomas Royal Hibbs, sawyer; George Arthur Hill, bushman, Ernest Robert Hoffman, head yardman; Athol Ross Smith, slabby; Louis Arthur Wilson, mill manager; William John Teague assistant-machinist; Kenneth Becker, bushman; Stanley Tabor Mumford, sawyer; Andrew Rasmussen, tram repairer; James Francis Bond, fiddler; Victor Pierson, yardman; Abraham Richard Faulkner, tractor driver; Cyril George Haines, winch driver; George Ryan, sawyer; John William Spillane, bushman; Arthur Harold Thelin, bush contractor; Henry Herbert Lemm. first bushman; Percy James Wood, log contractor; Clifford Perreman Thorpe, mill wright. Stood down. —John Edward Wildey, mill hand. Mr. F. L. Turley watched proceedings for the Timber Workers’ Union. (Proceeding).