APPEAL BOARD’S SITTING

Southland Times, Issue 24523, 26 August 1941, Page 6

APPEAL BOARD’S SITTING

RESERVISTS CALLED FOR OVERSEAS

The No. 6 Armed Forces Appeal Board, which sat in Invercargill yesterday, heard appeals against service overseas, most of them being entered on behalf of coal miners, freezing works employees and dairy factory workers. In most cases they were adjourned sme die and the reservists transferred to tne territorials for three months framing annually. The board comprised Messrs J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. (chairman), J. Price and H. Hodgson. Mr A. N. Haggitt appeared for the Crown. The grounds for all the appeals were public interst or undue hardship and in some cases both. , „ The Director of National Service appealed for John Samuel Ginivan, relieving .first assistant at the Mataura dairy factory. The appeal was adjourned sine die, the reservist to be transferred to the territorials for service during June, July and August. The Southland Frozen Meat Co., Ltd., appealed on behalf of four employees. They were William Henry Gorton, a cooper at the Makarewa works; Wilfred Thomas Newell, a slaughterman at Makarewa; Kenneth Alfred Price and John Montgomery Wilson, slaughtermen at the Mataura works. The Director of National Service appealed for William Alfred Roderick, a slaughterman at Makarewa employed by the Southland Frozen Meat Co., Ltd. The appeals for Newell, Price, Wilson and Roderick were adjourned sine die, the reservists to be transferred to the territorials for service in September, October and November. The appeal for Gorton was adjourned sine die, the reservist to be directed to serve in the Home Guard at Makarewa. The Wairaki Coal Company appealed for William McCoy, a miner. The appeal was adjourned sine die, the reservist to be transferred to the territorials for service during October November and December.

The Director of National Service appealed for nine men employed by the Linton Coal Co., Ltd. They were Llewellyn John David Bokser, James Michael Burke, Martin Cappie, William Wardle, hewers; Frederick John McGhee,. Allen Miller Shedden and John Francis Staunton, truckers; Clif—den Mair, carpenter, and Alexander Rodan, lamp trimmer. The appeals for Bokser, Burke, Cappie, McGhee, Shedden and Wardle were adjourned sine die, the reservists to be transferred to the territorials for service, the period of service to be arranged by the ManPower Committee. The appeal for Rodan was adjourned sine die, the reservist to be directed to serve in the Home Guard at Ohai. The appeals for Mair and Staunton were dismissed. “It is only fair to say that there is a letter from Staunton saying he does not want an appeal to be made,’’ said the chairman.

An appeal on behalf of Frank Lloyd Lindsay, a farmer, by his father, John Blackburn Lindsay, was made for an extension of the time within which the reservist could be called up to December 31, 1941. Mr J. C. Prain appeared for the appellant. The appeal was dismissed, the reservist not to be called up before December 31, 1941. The Seaward Downs Dairy Factory Co., Ltd., appealed on behalf of William Gerald Enright. It was stated that the reservist would be employed as fourth assistant in the factory hi the coming season. The appeal was adjourned sine die, the reservist to be transferred to the territorials for service during June, July and August. Robert John Donaldson, a farmer, of Wrights Bush, appealed on his own behalf. The appeal was dismissed, the reservist not to be called up before January 31, 1942. Mrs M, E. Butler, Lochiel, appealed on behalf of Keith Columba Butler, a farmer. Mr F. G. O’Beime appeared for the appellant The appeal _ was adjourned sine die, the reservist to be transferred to the territorials for service during October, November and December.