APPEAL BOARD

Grey River Argus, 19 May 1943, Page 2

APPEAL BOARD

SITTING AT GREYMOUTH.

The Armed Forces Appeal Board sat in Greymouth yesterday. Mr. \V. Meldrum presided, in association with Messrs P. J. McLean and A. Panther.' Mr. C. F. Shapcott was Secretary. Results’of mining appeals were:— Adjourned sine die: —Brunner Collieries for James Egan, winchman. State Coal Mines for James Lindley, trucker; Leslie John Kinsella, trucker; Victor Swallow, miner; Raymond George Regan, miner; S. White, miner, release from Air Force recommended; Robert Henry Nesbitt, miner; Richard George Martin, timber supplier. Stood-over: Application by Harrison and Party for leave to adopt appeal for Hugh Hassan, miner. Dismissed: State Coal Mines for Desmond Frederick Stokes, trucker. Michael James Maloney, timber contractor, .Blackball, appealed on his own behalf. He said that, in addition to cutting timber he had a leasehold farm of 200 acres at Moonlight, where he spent Saturdays and Sundays. The appeal was supported by Williams and Pariyl—Adiourned sine die.

Ogilvie and Co., sawmillers, appealed for William) Ogilvie Tennent, bush contractor. Mr. W T. Ogilvie stated that. rr»ervist was on release from camp and it was desired to retain him to assist with the erection of a hew sawmill at Gladstone, which had been delayed by the weather and labour shortage. The mill would not be completed for some 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, driver;’ Daniel Nestor, tililer-out; and Malcolm Andrew McTfgue, sawmiiler. Phillips, aged 43, was stated to be an essential man at . Manunui, where he had been employed for 19 years. Nestor, aged 37, had been employed as tailer-out at the Take Brunner top mill for three years; if he were removed output would fall bv 4,500 ft a day. McTigue, aged 37, a yardman in Higgin’s mill, Ross being absolutely necessary to the small mill team. —All adjourned sine die.

Appeals bv the Dispatch Foundry Ltd., (Mr. W. P. Hambleton), resulted as follows :—

Adjourned for three months for review:—Alexander Robert Lindbom, clerk; John Bray McGarth, storekeeper. Adjourned sine die: —Wallace Clifford McKechnie, engineer draughtsman; William Robert Payne, William Kevin Horrack. Ernest Greenhill Gilman, fitters; Desmond Ronald Hart. Jack Critchley, Rolf Beumetberg apprentice engineers; Owen Maurice Beirne, Richard Arnold Ramsay, Raymond Poschich, George William Nelson, Robert Carr, boilermakers; Ernest William Thomas, moulder. Dismissed:—William Patrick McGrath, moulder. Appeals for the following building trade employees were adjourned for review in three months, the' Board intimating to the Building Trades’ Committee that the need for grade one men would become increasingly acute, and that in allocating contracts they should bear in mind the urgency of releasing .such men:— K W. Rathbun for Ronald Hudson Thomas Lee, labourer; Master Builders’ Associat ; on for Eric Arthur H. Bunt, carpenter; T. A. Green and the Cobden Fire Brigade for Eric Oscar Brailsford, carpenter; George Manning. builder, his own behalf arid for lan Edgar Manning, carpenter; Leonard B. Davenport, builder, on his own behalf and for Francis Lewis Bell, builder, J. A. Hart and Son, for Allan Herbert Murphy, painter, Edwin Miles Moodie, carpenter, HenrjJames Wood, labourer, Ronald Batten Prince, carpenter, John Thomas Tunnage, carpenter, Oswald James Archer, carpenter, Sash and Door Company for Dexter C. Hodgkinson, joiner; Southerns Ltd., for uonn James Skeats, joiner, John Anderson Mann, foreman, Edward Oscar Hausman, painter, on his own behalf and for Harry Roland Stanway painter.

The following appeals for 'technicians and tradesmen were adjourned sine die:— Robert Francis Woodhouse, electrical engineer, on his own behalf, and for Herbert William Beams, electrical engineer; Concrete Pipe Company for Jack Edward Cooper, metal worker; W. Costello for George Edward Shaw, plumber; P. R. Wilkins for Roy Thomas, plumber; E. P. Heinz foi- Albert Philip Heinz, plumber; Jackson and MeGirr for Walter Leslie Hughes, plumber. Appeals for the following by, Westland Transport, Ltd., were adjourned sine die: —Robert Mclndoe Chant, crane driver, George O’Brien, lorry driver, William David 'Clark, lorry driver, Leonard Hugh Lee, truck driver, Angus Scott McLean, truck driver. and George Watson Thompson public accountant. In the case of the truck and lorry drivers the appeals were supported by Mr. J. S. Robertson, for the West Coast Sawmillers’ Association.

Appeals by Dunn’s Transport and Briandale Collieries, Ltd., for Thomas James Dunn and Lenin Dunn, cartage contractors, were adjourned sine die. An appeal bv Dunn’s Transport for Hawtrey Francis W. Elwood, cartage contractor was also adjourned sine die. This appeal was strongly supported by the Mining Controller. An appeal by John Gavin Malcomson. a service car driver was adjourned for three months for review. An appeal by Cecil Roy Wylde, a service car driver, was pdihu’-nnfl <-’ne die.