70 PER CENT APPEALS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21009, 4 February 1943, Page 2

70 PER CENT APPEALS

MEN IN LAST BALLOT NO HEARING DATES YET MEDICAL BOARDS BEGUN By the time the appeals against military service of men in the latest, or nineteenth, ballot, are completed, it is expected that fully 300. or nearly 70 per cent, of those in Gisborne and East Coast districts will have been appealed for. Information received from the Gisborne Armed Forces Appeal Board today stated that at present 284 appeals were iri hand out of 443 names in the Gisborne and Coastal areas over which the board had jurisdiction, and it was expected that when the remainder of the appeals tiled by the Director of National Service came in the number would reach easily 300. In the ballot, 895 of the names were of men in Gisborne and district and 48 from the East Coast. Medical boarding of the nineteenth ballot men commenced this week and is expected to occupy practically the whole of the month. It has been usual in the past to commence the hearing of the appeals almost immediately after the medical examinations of the first of the men have been completed, but apparently none of the men have been notified yet of the dates of their hearings. In view of the recent Ministerial announcement that the family men between 40 and 45 years of age may not be required for military duties, except for a short period of training, there may be no hurry in putting these men into camp and, at the same lime, no urgency to deal with the appeals against service. This may be the reason why none of the earlier examined men have been notified of (lie bearing.of their appeals.