SERVICE APPEALS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 May 1943, Page 6

SERVICE APPEALS

i CASES AT GREYMOUTH ; Forty-six cases were listed for hearing by the Armed Forces Appeal Board in Greymouth to-day, including those of timber and mine work-i-ers, and foundry employees. Mr. W. I Meldrum presided, with him being Messrs P. J. McLean and A. Panther. i Mr. C. F. Shapcott was Secretary. 1 The mining appeals resulted: — , Adjourned sine die: —Brunner Collieries for James Egan, winchman. •State Coal Mines for James Lindley, trucker; Leslie John Kinsella, ’trucker; Victor Swallow, miner; Rayimond George Regan, miner; S. White, miner, release from Air Force recommended; Robert Henry Naisbitt, miner; Richard George Martin, timber ; supplier. I Stood-over: Application by Harnsi on and Party for leave to adopt appeal for Hugh Hassan, miner. Dismissed: State Coal Mines for 1 Desmond Frederick Stokes, trucker. 1 Michael James Maloney, timber /contractor, Blackball, (Mr. W. D. Taylor), appealed on his own behalf. ‘He stated that his time was fully occupied in cutting timber, portion of [ which had to be sauared. He had a 1 leasehold farm of 200 acres at MoonNight, where he spent Saturdays and Sundays. He had been cutting his iown timber off and on for the last 22 wears and had no assistance as a cut,ter. Williams and Party supported the ; appeal, which was adjourned sine die. I Ogilvie and Co., sawmillers, for William Ogilvie Tennent, bush contractor. Mr. W. T. [Ogilvie stated that reservist was on i release from camp and it was desired ' to retain him to assist with the erection of a new sawmill at Gladstone, (which had been delayed by the I weather and labour shortage. The 1 mill would not be completed for some i time, but should be producing within 'three months, after which Tennent [ probably could be released. —Adjourned three months. The West Coast Sawmillers’ Association (Mr. J. S. Robertson) appealed for John Hunt Phillips, loco. I driver; Daniel Nestor, tailer-out; and [Malcolm Andrew McTigue, sawmili ler.. Phillips, aged 43, was stated to Ibe an essential man at Manunui, ’where he had been employed for 19 years. Nestor, aghd 37, had been employed as tailer-out at the Lake Brunner top mill for three years; if he were refnoved output would fall by 4,500 ft. a day. McTigue, aged 37, a yardman in Higgins’s mill, Ross, being absolutely necessary to the small mill team.—All adjourned sine die. Appeals by the Dispatch Foundry i Ltd., (Mr. W. P. Hambleton) resulti ed:— i Adjourned three months for review. ■ —Alexander Robert Lindbom, clerk; i John Bray Hogarth, storekeeper. • Adjourned sine die:—Wallace Clifford McKechnie, engineer daughts;man; William Robert Payne, William Kevin Horrack, Ernest Greenhill Giliman, fitters; Desmond Ronald Hart, Jack Critchley, Rolf Beumelberg, 'apprentice engineers; Owen Maurice • Beirne, Richard Arnold Ramsay, ! Raymond Poschich, George William .Nelson, Robert Carr, boilermakers; j Ernest William Thomas, moulder. Dismissed:—William Patrick Mc,’Grath, moulder. i The Board adjourned till 2 p.m.