Armed Forces Appeal Board Sits In Kaikohe

Northern Advocate, 26 April 1944, Page 4

Armed Forces Appeal Board Sits In Kaikohe

(Spec.) KAIKOHE, This Day. “It’s an extraordinary and unusual attitude to take up.” remarked Mr. A. J. Magee, a member of the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board, when Mr. H. F. Guy, of Kaikohe, told the board that the parents of a youth engaged in farming had refused to sign an appeal but wished the case to be heard and adjudged by the board.

“Their reason,” stated Mr. Guy, “seems to be that they have decided to leave it to the board as to whether fighting or production is of paramount importance in the war effort. They say that so much has been published about the need for greater dairy production, but if the board takes their son they will know that fighting is still of greater importance in New Zealand.”

The chairman'(Mr. R. Coates): WJiat they perhaps do not realise is that various factors come into the picture. The appeal boards sit in the interests of essential industries as well as of the armed forces, and we can hardly adjudicate without hearing the full story. Mr. Guy: It may also be a disinclination to have it said they had appealed for their boy, but it should be realised of course that it is sometimes as much a duty to appeal as it is to allow a man to go into the forces. Appeals resulted as follows:

D. B. Maxwell, farmer, of Kohukohu, on grounds of public interest; adjourned conditional on his continuing to work under tlie direction of the local primary production council. Desmond Anderson Cauty, farm manager, Okaihau, public interest and undue hardship: adjourned sine die. Marko Buselieh, farmer, Kaitain, public interest and undue hardship; appeal dismissed.

William Ross Beazley, farmhand, Kohukohu, public interest: sine die. John Eugene Waterman, farmhand, Ohaeawai, public interest; withdrawn. Alfred William Henry Gray, farmhand, Broad wood, public interest; sine die. Douglas Ralph Thomas. assistant butcher, Okaihau .public interest and undue hardship; sine die. Trevor Donald Matthews, cream-car-rier, Broadwood. public interest; appeal dismissed, to enter armed forces on November 1.

Walter Cecil Baker, dairy factory hand, Kohukohu, public interest; sine die. Milton Trevor Corfield, cheese factory assistant, Waimamaku, public interest and undue hardship; sine die. Stanley Morrell Hall, cheese factory assistant and farmhand. Waimamaku, public interest and undue hardship: sine die.

- Victor Irving Billings, farmhand. Okai hau, public interest and undue hardship sine die.

Mervyn Gower .Alexander, farmer, Okaihad, public interest and undue hardship sine die. Victor Bruno McOready. truck driver O

haeawai, public interest; sine die. Ralph Allan Ran ft. second assistant at pasteuriser, Moerexva. public interest; withdrawn.

Clement George Smith, driver. Moprewa, public interest; dismissed, to enter forces by July l.

Selwyn Sefton Steadman, general carrier, Moercwa, public interest; sine die. itobert Horace Neumann, farmhand, Waimate North, public interest and undue hardship; sine die.

Arthur Dyer, farmhand, Kohukohu, public interest; adjourned to next sitting at Kaikohe.

Joseph William Nash, farm manager, Kohukohu, public interest: withdrawn. Thomas George Nisbet, farmhand, Oue. Hokianga. public interest; adjourned to next sitting. , . David James Mayall, projectionist, Kaikohe, public interest; dismissed, to enter armed forces by June 1.

Peter Smith, baker, Kaikohe, public interest; sine die.