ARMED FORCES BOARD

Southland Times, Issue 24565, 14 October 1941, Page 6

ARMED FORCES BOARD

Appeals Against Service The No. 6 Armed Forces Appeal Board began a. 10-day sitting in Invercargill yesterday afternoon when it heard appeals lodged on behalf of freezing works employees and farm workers. The members of the board were Messrs J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. (chairman), H. Hodgson and J. Price. Mr A. N. Haggitt appeared for the Crown.

Eight appeals were lodged on behalf of men employed by the Southland Frozen Meat Co., Ltd. The company lodged' appeals on behalf of Harold John Butts, slaughterhouse assistant, Arthur James Browning, casings classer, William Robert Counsell, casing machinist, Alister McDougall and John Armstrong, slaughtermen. The Director of National Service appealed for William Lancelot Spencer, Albert Henry Payne and Bernard Charles Thomas, slaughtermen. The general manager of the company (Mr Alex Derbie) gave evidence about the degree of importance to production of the reservists. The grounds of the appeals were public interest.

The appeals on behalf of Butts, Browning, Counsell and Armstrong were dismissed. The appeals on behalf of McDougall, Spencer, Payne and Thomas were adjourned sine die, and the reservists were transferred to the territorials for service within the period June to November inclusive. FARMING APPEALS Arthur Cecil Hermann, dairy farmer, Lorneville, appealed for his son, Francis Frederick Hermann, dairy farmer, on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship. The reservist also appealed on the same grounds. The appeal was adjourned sine die and the reservist was transferred to the territorials. Walter Leslie Saunders, farmer, sawmiller and threshing mill owner, of Otahuti R.D., appealed on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship. The appeal was dismissed conditional on the reservist not being called up before December 31. John Milton Hewitson, Woodlands, dairy farmer (Mr R. T. Meredith), appealed on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship. The appeal was dismissed conditional on the reservist not being called up before December 31. The Director of National Service appealed on the ground of undue hardship on behalf of Charles William Clark, | farm labourer, Makarewa. The appeal was dismissed conditional on the reservist not being called up for service before March 31, 1942. Mr Gordon J. Reed appeared for the reservist. Williamina Tui Walker, Otahuti (Mr G. C. Cruickshank), appealed on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship on behalf of John Crawford McCallum, farm labourer. The appeal was adjourned sine die, conditional on the reservist continuing to serve in the Home Guard.