MILITARY DUTY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24084, 1 October 1941, Page 6

MILITARY DUTY

TERRITORIAL CADRE INDISPENSABLE OFFICER EMPLOYERS' APPEAL FAILS (0.C.) WAIPUKURAU. Tuesday The first appeal heard in Hawke's Bay against service in a Territorial cadre was dismissed by the Hawke's Bay Manpower Committee at Waipukurau. The reservist was Lieutenant E. 11. Carew, command post officer, 12th Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery. Lieutenant Carew's employers, the Acetone Illumination and Welding Company. Napier, claimed that he was a key man in their organisation and claimed that he should lie retained on the ground of public: interest. The Army also claimed that he was a key man and the committee decided that hi- military duties were more important than his industrial service. Mr. ('. I). Kdmoridson, secretary of the company, said Lieutenant Carew Mas <; bachelor of engineering and responsible for the design and {supervision of manufacture of a certain apparatus used extensively in work closciy concerned with the war effort. Mr. G. A. Maddison, chairman of tie committee, said their instructions were that except under exceptional circumstances men were not to be held hack from cadre service. Lieutenant R. T. Uaddon, assistant adjutant, 12th Field Regiment, New Zealand Artillery, said Lieutenant Carew was probably the most important subaltern in the artillery battery to which he was attached. He was the officer who trained all specialists and without him the battery would cease to function. He had been selected on account of bis specialised knowledge, particularly higher mathematics. On that subject he knew more than most senior officers. He was wanted in Waiouru to train specialists and lecture to officers. The battery had only eight of the 14 officers it should have and five of these were to go into the cadre, leaving only three junior officers to conduct out-of-camp training. It would be impossible to find a substitute for Lieutenant Carew in the cadre.