NELSON MANPOWER COMMITTEE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 7 December 1940, Page 4

NELSON MANPOWER COMMITTEE

64 APPEALS TO BE HEARD SECOND BALLOT FOR TERRITORIAL FORCES SITTINGS COMMENCE ON MONDAY On Monday morning the Nelson Manpower Committee (Messrs G. L. Page, chairman. W. Black and J. Dicker) will commence the hearing of appeals on behalf of men drawn in the second ballot for service with the New Zealand Territorial Forces. Sixty-four appeals have been lodged in the Nelson. Golden Bay and Marlborough districts. The Nelson sitting will commence at 10 o’clock on Monday morning in the Supreme Court room. On Tuesday the committee will hold a sitting at Motueka. and on Wednesday the Golden Bay appeals will be heard at Takaka. Kaikoura will be visited by the committee on Tuesday, 17th December, and Elenheim, on Wednesday, 18th December. At the above-mentioned sittings the committee will hear a few appeals which for various reasons were held over from the first ballot for territorial training. SERVICE IN MOUNTED RIFLES When the committee is at Blenheim, in addition to the appeals in connection with the second ballot, it will hear 40 appeals by, or on behalf of, members of the Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles who volunteered for service some time ago. Nelson volunteers and first ballot territorials are in the Ist Battalion Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast Regiment, which has been in camp for the past two months at Burnham. However Marlborough volunteers and first ballot territorials were attached to the Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles which unit will go into camp on the Ist February. When many of the Marlborough volunteers joined the Mounted Rifles they were apparently not aware of the fact that three months’ training in camp would be necessary, and as a result 40 appeals against service in that camp have been lodged.