ARMED SERVICES

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23186, 27 April 1945, Page 4

ARMED SERVICES

Appeals Heard By Board

Scarcity Of Builders Giving evidence as a co-appellant at a sitting yesterday of the 108 Armed Forces Appeal Board, W. A. Petrie read an advertisement from a newspaper for 100 men for building work.

He had attended a conference in Wellington recently, said Mr Petrie, and the scarcity of builders was general throughout New Zealand. In all he had contracts for the building of 31 State houses. From a recent release of men from the Armed Forces there had been only three tradesmen. o::e had gone to Dunedin, another to Wi imate, and one had remained in Timaru.

Mr J. Cooke: You would not like the man you are appealing for manpowered to Wellington? Mr Petrie: I would really fight then. The Board, comprising Messrs K. Mackenzie (chairman), J. Cooke, S. G. McClelland and H. Fleetwood (Crown representative) gave the following decisions:—

Adjourned sine die: Cyril N. G. Low (Director), farm worker, Timaru; George Albert Wilkins (Director), farm worker, Parcora; Robert J. A. Johnston (Director), farm manager, Maungati; Hamish G. Jamieson (J. F. K. Jamieson), farm hand. Taiko; Allan Dunean Aitken (Director), tractor driver, Klngsdown; Thomas Clifton Brown, farmer, Mt. Nessing; Henry Wreford Besley (Director), farm hand, Albury; Herbert Thomas (Director), farm labourer, Southburn; William Moody King (Director), farm labourer, Landsborough Road; Brendan P. O'Sullivan (Director), farm worker, Taiko; Keith Wyatt Keliand (A. K. Keliand), farm hand, Albury; Henry S. Hubbard, farmer, Albury; Ernest Samuel Darling (G. E. Darling), tractor driver, Seadown; John Norman Lobb, farmer, Kingsdown; Henry Patrick■ Walsh (H. P. Walsh), farm hand, Crlcklewood; Thomas Russell Baiilie (Director), farm worker, Timaru; Robert W. Sinclair (Director), grocer’s assistant, Timaru; Lloyd G. Williams (Hadlee and Clough), plumber, Timaru; D. M. Burnett (Est. T. D. Burnett), sheep farmer, Fairlie; Bernard Wareing (Director), farm hand, Fairlie; Charles H. Dryden (Director), factory hand, Timaru; Frank Frame (S. S. Home), carpenter, Timaru; W. T. Richardson (S. S. Home), carpenter, Timaru; Gilbert Duncan (Malcolm Hall and Duncan), carpenter, Timaru; Terrence H. Reid (W. J. Harding), painter, Timaru; Alexander L. Gunn (A. Kennedy), bricklayer, Timaru; Cyril G. Glenville, carpenter. Timaru; Gilbert Austin (Canterbury Education Board), painter, Temuka; Harold E. Tapp (W. Petrie), joiner, Timaru; Stephen Lancaster (J. D. O’Connell), carpenter, Timaru. Dismissed conditionally on reservists not being called up before the date stated: Meurice A. Johnson (Director), farm hand. Gleniti (May’ 31); John Edge (Director), farm worker, Fairlie (June 3C>: William G. Jamieson (Director), farm hand, Taiko (June 6); Thomas F. Fleming (Director)o farm hand. Albury (June 15); William D. A. Brown (T. C. Brown), farm hand, Mt. Nessing (May 31); Kenneth Roland King (Director), farm hand. Timaru (June 15); Francis B. O'Sullivan (Est. D. O'Sullivan), - farm worker, Taiko (May 31); Clifford M. O’Connor (Director), Railway employee. Timaru (June 30); T.romas Henry Haar (Director), farm labourer, Albury (June 15); George Wood Squire (T. L. Squire), farm labourer, Maungati (May 31); Hamilton Millar (Director), farm hand, Clandeboye (May 31).

Withdrawn by leave of Board: Norman Campbell (Director), farm labourer, Claremont; Laurence M. Cameron (Director), farm labourer. Taiko.

Appeals dismissed: Leslie Ralph Coles, farm labourer. St. Andrews; Andrew D. Mackay (Mackay estate), farm labourer, Albury (lack of prosecution).