ARMED FORCES APPEAL BOARD

Grey River Argus, 26 November 1942, Page 2

ARMED FORCES APPEAL BOARD

GREYMOUTH SITTING The No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board sat in Greymouth again yes--terday. Mr W. Meldrum was chairman,'' Messrs A. Panther and P. X McLean being with him. Mr C. r. Shapcott was secretary. The board will sit in Hokitika to-day. Details of yesterday’s appeals are as foi lows, the names of those lodging appeals being in parenthesis:— Thomas Eldward Jones. farmer (Estate W. F. Jones). Mr W. R. Milder (District Public Trustee! said that Jones was managing the farming operations of the estate, with his mother and two sisters. There was no one else suitable to do the heavy farm work. He was milking 66 cows tl is season, and the butterfat yield this year was expected to be about 13,0001b5. The appeal was supportea by the Primary Production Council --Adjourned sine die. George Robert Wheatley, factory manager (District Public Trustee) -■- Held over.

John Frederick Williames, miner, and Charles Albert Schafer, trucker (Brunner Collieries); Cecil Stanley McMaster. miner (Grey Valiev Collieries); Bernard Kenneth Traill, i i ticker; Gordon William McKenzie, hushman (Stale Coal Mines); Harold Hadcroft (Moore and Partv).— Adjourned sine die. W'lliam James Newton, miner (Grey Valley Collieries): Thomas Merriman, miner (State Coal Minas) —Decision reserved.

Charles Dominic O’Neill, miner . (State Coal Mines). —Held over. I Victor Ward, timber contractor 1 (co-operative mining parties).—Held I over for information. I George Clive Mason, bushman. I Nils More Nord, mill hand, Keith i Malcolm Hall, bushman. William John Radomski. bushman (West Coast Sawmillers’ Association) .• —Adjourned sine die. John Joseph Devonport. yardman (West Coast Sawmillers’ Association) —Dismissed, the obligation to serve to be postponed tilt December 31. Harrv Roland Stanway. painter ■ (own behalf). Mr A. M. Jamieson represented appellant.—Held ove r for employer’s appeal. Charles Edmund Reiha, dairy farmer (own behalf). Mr Jamieson represented appellant, a married man with five children. He was milking 31 cows and there were six more coming in. The Primary Production Council, supporting the appeal, said that, the property was being farmed as well as could be expected in the circumstances, Reiha being a partly experienced man. —Adjourned sine die. Michael George Kelly, salesman (Dalgety and Co., Ltd.). Mr Jamieson appeared for appellant. Mr N. D. McCallum (branch manager of Dalgetv and Co.) said that it was essential that they should have an experienced man in the branch while he was away travelling. Kelly was doing this work and was a man of wide” experience. There was no one available from the other branches, and the branch would have to close down if Kelly were not available.— Adjourned sine die. Daniel Thomson, ganger and driver (Grey County Council). Mr W. D. Taylor appeared for appellant. Mr J’. Higgins (Grey County Engineer) said thal Thomson was in charge of 334 miles of road, which carried the production of four sawmills and serw ed farmers at Taramakau and residents at and about Inchbonnie. There was heavy wear on the road, as well :-’.s scouring at times, and the danger .of slips. It was necessary for a roadman to work for a year or 18 months under an experienced man before he was given a responsible position of this sort. —Adjourned sine die. Domenico Bertacco, labourer (K'Unanga Borough Council). Mr E. W. Kennedy (Mayor of Runanga) said that apart from the Borough Fore/' man, Bertacco was the only man to carry out repairs.—Adjourned sine die Gilbert Dalziel Buchanan, postmaster (P. and T. Dept.). Mr A. W. Swap (Chief Postmaster. Greymouth) said that Buchanan had been postmaster at Ross for more than five years. He was controller of communications in the E.P.S. there, and was fuel and food controller for the scattered southern district. The

Ross office also provided the telegraph service to this area. No replacements of a suitable type were available. —Adjourned sine die. The appeals of James William O’Donoghua and John Stephen Doyle, watersiders (N.Z. Watersiders’ Union) and William Thomas Hawkins, trucker (Ngahere Gold Dredging Ltd.) were held over.