ARMED FORCES BOARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24828, 30 January 1942, Page 7

ARMED FORCES BOARD

APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE SITTING AT BALCLUTHA The Alined Forces Appeal BoardMessrs J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., J. Price and H Hodgson—commenced a sitting at BaJclutha on Wednesday. Mr A. N. Hagj;itt appeared for the Crown. All appeals were based on the grounds of either public interest or undue hardship. The names of the persons making the appeals appear in parentheses:— The following appeals were adjourned sine die: —Frederick James Carson and James Michael Greene, truckers, and Andrew Mackie, a shiftman, all employed by the Kaitangata Coal Company (Director of National Service), the reservists to serve with the Home Guard at Kaitangata. Norman Earle McKay (Norman McKay and the Primary Production Council), a farmhand, of Clvdevale, to continue serving with the Home Guard at Clydevale. On review the cases of Thomas Henry Scott (Euphemia Scott), a dairy farm hand, of Stirling, and Llewellyn Ledingham Christie (Primary Production Council), a farmer, of Warepa, were further adjourned. The following reservists were transferred to the territorials: —James Milne, jun. (James Milne), a farmhand, of Inch Clutha; George Dovey, jun. (George Dovey), a farmer, of Te Houka; Alexander Frank Plew (Primary Production Council), a threshing mill proprietor, of Balclutha; John Roxburgh and Ernest Furly Rawson (South Otago Freezing Company, Ltd.), solo slaughtermen. The following cases were i-eviewed and further adjourned sine die with territorial services:—Kenneth James Mcintosh, a farmer, of Kakapuaka; Alan George Maze (Gordon Sangster Maze), a farm hand, of Kakapuaka; Roland McPhedran Whittaker (Charles Whittaker), a farmer, of Springbank; Herbert Stuart Scott (Euphemia Scott and the Primary Production Council), a dairy farmer, of Stirling; Andrew Kerr Stewart Paisley (Director of National Service), of Clydevale, a farm hand. The following appeals were dismissed: Andrew John King, a wool sorter employed by the South Otago Freezing Company (Director of National Service), the reservist not to be called before June 30, 1942; Robert Henry Hawker (Director of National Service), cheesemaker, Stirling, dairy factory, the reservist not to be called before April 30, 1942.