APPEAL BOARD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20621, 24 November 1941, Page 3

APPEAL BOARD

SERVICE IN ARMED FORCES SITTING IN WAIROA (Herald Correspondent.) Five cases were dealt with at a sitting of the No. 4A Armed Forces Appeal Board in Wairoa. Mr. H. B. Lusk presided, and with him were Messrs. F. R. Field and W. H. Barry, with Mr. J. C. Corbishley as secretary. Mr. J. S. Wauchop appeared for the Crown. On the grounds-of public interest, an appeal was lodged by Hume Steel, Limited, on behalf of Walter Frank Collins, welder. It was, stated in evidence that the recruit was engaged on hydro-electric welding work and that the employer could easily do with

more ’’-elders. —The appeal was adjourned sine die.

Mr. Samuel Rennie Mitchell appealed on grounds of public interest and undue hardship for his son. William Rennie Mitchell, farm manager. It. was stated that owing to his health the father had difficulty in carrying on the farm on his own, and that he had been unable to secure assistance. —The appeal was adjourned sine die.

Appellant in Air Force

An appeal was lodged by Mr. Herbert Douglas Lylian on behalf of lan Douglas Lylian, fanri manager, on grounds of public interest and undue hardship. Mr. C. R. Sainsbury, for the appellant, said that the father was in the air force, in control of an aerodrome. He had been in the air force in the last war and his duties were of the greatest importance. He had been unable to secure anyone to take charge of the farm. The recruit was willing to go to the war and the appeal was not his. —The application was adjourned for three months, an endeavour to be made in the. meantime to sell or lease the, farm.

The Director of National Service lodged an appeal for John Michael Walter Bray on grounds of public interest. In evidence Mr. Humphry Bayly said that it was the first case in which the Bayly Trust had appealed, and it did so reluctantly, but it had no other course.—The chairman said that the request in the circumstance? was a very reasonable one. The appeal would be dismissed, but the recruit would not be called up before April 30, 1942. An appeal wap lodged by Albert Edward Aiken, missionary and shearer, on the grounds of conscientious objection.—The appellant did nol appear, and the case was adjourned until the January sitting, the chairman remarking- that it would then be decided finally.