78 EXEMPTIONS

Grey River Argus, 7 October 1941, Page 3

78 EXEMPTIONS

MILITARY APPEALS FOR PUBLIC SERVANTS. P.A. WELLINGTON, Oct. 6The Armed Forces Appeal Board dealt to-day with upwards of hfty appeals brought by the Railway s Department on the ground of public interest, on behalf of workshops and operating staff employees. Adjournments sine die were granted in all cases. In the majority or the cases the Board directed tire reservists to undergo, or continue. Territorial training or with E.P.S. and E.F.S. Twenty-eight appeals on the same ground bv the Post and Telegraph Department were also disposed of. These concerned technical and operating staff employees. In all cases, adjournments sine die were granted. A number of the adjournments were made subject to review in three or six months. Service for Defaulters DELAY OVER ARRANGEMENTS. P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 6. “The thing is becoming an absurdity,” declared Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., when he referred in the Magistrate's Court to delay in implementing the Government’s regulations for providing alternative service for military defaulters. The case before him was that of a young man who already had been remanded on several occasions pending the provision of alternative service. Defenaant was a grocer’s assistant, aged 30, who appeared for sentence on a charge that, on July 2, being a man called up for service with the armed forces, he failed to report to the military, authorities.” I was hoping that, long before this, there would be the other establishment,” said Mr. Levvey, who said he doubted the wisdom of adjourning the case further. Mr. K. G Archer, for the defendant, said he wQyld hesitate to ask for further adjournments. Sub Inspector E. T. C. Turner “Regulations have bee.n issued, but the Defence Department is not ready to put them into effect. We are expecting word shortly.” The Magistrate: “It is high time they were put into operation now.’