MILITARY SERVICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24632, 13 June 1941, Page 2

MILITARY SERVICE

SITTING OF APPEAL BOARD APPLICATIONS BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Appeals by university students and members of the staff of the University of Otago occupied the greater part, of the sitting of the Armed Forces Appe&l Board yesterday. The board comprised Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. (chairman), Messrs J. Price and H. Hodgson. Mr P. S. Anderson represented the Crown. Appeals by Medical Students Appeals on the grounds of public interest were made by the following medical students: Glyndwr Thorsby Davies, Ewing Kirkland Scorgie, Rex William David Renton, John Colin Baird, Leonard Gordon Ellis, Kenneth Hardie Patterson, Neil Perry’ Markham, Colin Fulton McKee, Anthony Crowley Sandston, Henry Rongomau Bennett, Robert Algar Warren, William John Watt, William Ross Aitchison, Robert Edmund Ballantyne, Mark Graham Somerville, Rowland Bramwell Bell, Edward Lear Gillies, Ross Lyle Jones, William Stewart Alexander, Keith Mickle France, Earle William Glenn, Jeffrey Melville Loulsson, Edgar Atheling Morfis, Rodney Chisenhall Hamerton. Robert Tannahill Watson, Wilfrid Christie Mills,Walter Victor MacFarlane, Derrick Tomlinson’, Geoffrey James Taine, John Alexander MacDonald Boyd, Godfrey Matthew Goodson, Victor David Morrow Jacobson, and Athol James Patterson. Dr Hercus stated that ambulance units were being formed which would give medical students some form of service. A meeting would be held this week to make arrangements, and it was hoped to form a field ambulance corps in which all medical and dental students could serve. The appeals were adjourned sine die on condition that each student joined the ambulance corps. , An appeal on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship was lodged by Gerard Aloysius Wall, a second-year medical student and a seasonal farm worker.—J. H. Gallen and A. W. Matheson, farmers, appealed on behalf of \he reservist, whom they employed during his holidays.—The reservist’s appeal on the grounds of undue hardship was dismissed, a condition being that he should not be called up before November 30. The other appeals were dismissed. William Lindsay Arm tage. a second-year medical student, appealed on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship. The chairman of the board pointed out that the other students had completed their second year at ■ least—The appeal was dismissed on the condition that the reservist was not called up before November 30.—Appeals by Barry Kahlenberg and Leslie Raymond Chapman on similar grounds were dismissed, with the same special condition. Conscientious Grounds

lan Reuben Baillie Jacobson, a fifth - vear medical student, appealed on the grounds of public interest and on conscientious grounds. —The appellant stated that he objected to serving in any part of the army and to taking the oath. He admitted going into camp with the University Medical Corps at the beginning of the year in order to save the possibility of losing a year’s studies. He objected to serving in the Ambulance Corps. —“lf your conscience was sufficiently accommodating to allow you to go into camp,” the chairman stated, it will have to be equally so In respect of the Ambulance Corps.’—The appeal was adjourned sine die, on the condition that the appellant joined the Ambulance Corps. Members of University Staff

The registrar of the University of Otago and Dr Hercus appealed on behalf of David. Stuart Cumberbeach. a chemist at the Medical School, on the grounds of public interest.—Dr Hercus stated that the reservist would be difficult to replace, and his services were essential at the present time.—The appeal was adjourned for three months on condition that the University Council took steps to replace the reservist. A similar appeal on behalf of Malcolm Ravenswood Morris, employed In a key position in the bacteriological department at the Medical School, was adjourned sine die. The registrar of the University appealed on behalf of Meyrick Vincent Bryan King, a lecturer at the Medical School, on the grounds of public interest—Dr Hercus said that if King were removed from his present position it would cause a serious dislocation at the Medical School. —The appeal was adjourned sine die, on condition that the reservist joined the new Ambulance Corps. , . , The registrar of the University appealed on behalf of William Henderson, assistant lecturer in chemistry at the Medical School—The appeal was dismissed on condition that the reservist was not called up before October 31. An appeal by the registrar on behalf of John Niemeyer Findlay, professor of philosophy and psychology at the University, was made on the grounds of public interest.—The chancellor of the University (Mr W. J. Morrell) stated that the reservist could not be replaced at present.—The appeal was adjourned sine die on condition that the reservist be transferred to the territorials for service between October and March. Robert Cecil Cording, demonstrator at the Dental School, appealed on the grounds of public interest.—The appeal was adjourned sine die, on condition that the appellant joined the new ambulance, corps. Appeals by Other Students

Appeals by Walter Goldie Wright and Lawrence Arthur Small, dental students, on the grounds of public interest, were supported by Dr Bevan Dodds, dean of the Dental School.—The appeals were adjourned sine die, on condition that the reservists joined the new ambulance unit.

Samuel Mitchell Frederick Martin, a final-year mining student, appealed on the grounds of public interest.—The appeal was dismissed, a condition being that the reservist would not be called up before October 31 to enable him to complete his course. Duncan William Snelling, a second-year dental student, appealed on the grounds of public interest in that there was a serious shortage of dentists and dental students, and on the grounds of undue hardship.—The appeals were dismissed, a condition being that the appellant was not called up before November 30. Roy Alexander Cameron, a student at the Training College, appealed on the grounds of undue hardship so that he could continue his course until the end of October.—The appeal was dismissed, with the condition that the reservist was not called up before October 31. Not a Member of Reserve James William Blenvenu, an Australian, appealed on the grounds that he was not a member of the reserve or a member of the class called up in that he had not resided in New Zealand for 12 months.— The appellant stated that he arrived in New Zealand on March 19, 1940, and his name appeared in the ballot which was gazetted on March 4, 1941. He was prepared to undertake military duties, but would prefer to serve with the Australians.—The appeal was allowed on the grounds of status. Pleas of Undue Hardship

Graham Lawsen Cochrane appealed on the grounds of undue hardship. The appeal was dismissed, a condition oeing that the appellant was not called up be |r[c Penrfo? dairy farm nealed on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship, his father, James William Penno, lodging an appeal on similar grounds.—The board reserved its de jam° s Edward Coster, an apprentice carpenter, appealed on the ground of undue hardship in that his term of apprenticeship would expire on January 31 next The appeal was dismissed, the appellant not to be called up before January 31.