TERRITORIAL SERVICE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 11 June 1941, Page 3

TERRITORIAL SERVICE

MORE APPEALS HEARD

Further requests for exemption from Territorial service were considered by the Nelson Manpower Committee when it continued its sitting yesterday afternoon. The members of the committee are Messrs G. L. Page (chairman), J. Dicker and W. Black. Antonio Sannazzaro was represented by Mr W. V. R. Fletcher when he appealed on the grounds of undue hardship and public interest. Mr Fletcher said his client was a tomato grower, and as the work had to be carried on all the year round it would be very difficult for him to enter camp for three months. Sannazzaro claimed that his mother and sister were dependent on him. The appeal was dismissed subject to the reservist not being called up before Ist August. A student of Canterbury College, Robert Courtney La wry, appealed on the grounds of hardship. He was working this year for the final section of his B.Sc. degree. The appeal was dismissed subject to Lawry not being called up before Ist December. Mrs A. A. Burns, proprietress of the Burns Bus Co., appealed for an employee, Eric Jennens, because of the difficulty in obtaining a competent staff. Jennens said he had enlisted voluntarily for overseas service, but had not passed the medical examination. All men who had enlisted for overseas were now required to enter territorial camp. Mr V. Rout, who represented Mrs Burns, said that Mr Jennens had been trained by the late Mr Burns to run the bus service, which was an important public service. Mrs Burns’ appeal was upheld and adjourned for ftiree months. A request that he should be allowed to do his Territorial training during July, August and September was made by Kelvin Hector Nisbett, a tobacco grower. Nisbett said he had let the lease of his farm go in order to enter camp. The appeal was dismissed subject to Nisbett being called up on Ist August. Five seamen, Frank James Cappiello, Geoffrey Gordon Hutchinson, William Gordon Lyndon, Jack Stanley Mirfin, and Frank Robert Nilson, were appealed for by their employer, the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company. Another seaman, Frederick George Kroening, was appealed for by the Union Steam Ship Company. All these appeals, which were supported by the New Zealand Ship Owners’ Federation, were upheld and adjourned sine die.