APPEALS AGAINST ARMED SERVICE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 3

APPEALS AGAINST ARMED SERVICE

DECISIONS ANNOUNCED BY BOARD CASES AT WANGANUI SITTINGS. I Decisions reserved in 13 of the 16 appeals heard by the No. 3 Armed Forces Appeal Board at its first sittings in Wanganui on Tuesday were announced yesterday. One of the 16 appeals was withdrawn, and the decisions in the other two cases have not yet been announced. Four of the appeals heard on Tuesday were based on grounds of conscientious objection. Three of them were dismissed, and one was adjourned sine die, with a recommendation for alternative service. Several appeals on behalf of farm workers were also adjourned sine dine. The board deals with all appeals from reservists drawn in the ballot for overseas service, and with appeals from Territorial ballots based on conscientious objection. The personnel of the board is Mr. A. Coleman, S.M. (Wanganui), chairman. Mr. T. H. B. Ewens (Wanganui), and Mr. T. R. Lees (Palmerston North). The Crown representative is Mr. C. H. Clinkard (Wanganui). Reserved decisions announced by the board yesterday were:—Conscientious Objection. George Ayson Watts, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection, co-appeJlant being his mother, Mrs. M. C. Watts, oil grounds ot undue hardship: Both appeals were dismissed. William John Cooper, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection and undue hardship: Both appeals were dismissed. John William Rogers, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection: Dismissed. Bernard Stanley McFarlane, 'for whom Mr. C. F. Treadwell appeared, appealed on the grounds of undue hardship and conscientious objection, co-appellant being his mother, Mrs. McFarlane, on the grounds of undue hardship: The appeal on grounds of hardship was dismissed, and that on grounds of conscientious objection was adjourned sine die, with a recommendation for alternative service Appeals Dismissed. Raymond Gambitsis, for whom Mr. C. F. Treadwell appeared, appeal on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship, appellant being his uncle, Gerrassismos Gambitsis, owner of a restaurant and fish and chip business in Wanganui: Appeal dismissed. Laurence Anthony Ahern, appeal by his mother, Mrs. J. M. Ahern, on grounds of undue hardship: Dismissed. Adjourned Sine Die. Howard Gameson, appeal on Hie grounds of public interest and undue hardship, appellant being the Steel Pipe and Engineering Company of New Zealand, Limited: Adjourned sine die. Clarence Maples Mooney, for whom Mr. H. G. Horsley appeared, appeal by self for indefinite postponement of service overseas on the ground of public interest: Adjourned sine die, Clifford Henry Robinson, appeal on the grounds of public interest and hardship, appellant being Jeremiah O’Leary: Adjourned sine die. Bernard Joseph Martin, appeal on grounds of undue hardship and public interest, appellant being H. J. Duigan, who described Martin as being the key man on a Karioi farm: Adjourned since die. Other Appeals. Gordon Pearson Laing, appeal by self and mother, Mrs. M. A. Laing, on the grounds of undue hardship: Both appeals were adjourned three months to enable appellants to arrange their domestic affairs. Gifford Edward Hallam, appeal on grounds of undue hardship, appellant being W. A. Hampton and Company, Limited: Dismissed conditional on Hallam not being called up before April 1. SALVATION ARMY BANDSMAN APPEAL NOT SUCCESSFUL CONSCIEUTIOUS OBJECTION. WELLINGTON. Feb. 5. Appearing in a Salvation Army bandsman’s uniform, Herbert Roy Dutton, aged 23, insurance agent, unsuccessfully appealed on the ground of conscientious objection before the No. 4 Armed Forces Appeal Board in Wellington. He said he had been a Salvation Army member and bandsman for six years and engaged in young people’s and bands’ work. He was prepared to devote his whole time to the Salvation Army for the duration of the war. Mr. C. O. Bell, Crown representative: Are you prepared to do any war service? —I have beep accepted by the Salvation Army for work in the Waiouru camp institute and am proceeding there at once if this appeal is allowed. You would do ambulance work?— Under the auspices of the Salvation Army. If the Government assured you of non-combatant service under military control, would you accept it?—Yes. I would.