APPEALS ALLOWED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 33, 8 February 1941, Page 8

APPEALS ALLOWED

ALTERNATIVE SERVICE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION BOARD'S RECOMMENDATION Five appeals against military service, lodged on grounds of conscientious objection by reservists drawn in recent Territorial ballots, were allowed by the No. 3 Armed Forces Appeal Board after hearing evidence on Thursday. The decisions were -i inounced yesterday. Three appeals on the same grounds, also by reservists drawn in Territorial ballots, were dismissed, and another was adjourned sine die, with a recommendation for alternative service. A similar recommendation was made in each of the five appeals allowed. 7tn appeals were heard by the board when the Wanganui sittings concluded on Thursday, the only appellant drawn in an overseas ballot being a Marton farmer, who appealed on the grounds of undue hardship and public interest. His appea. was adjourned sine die. The board consists of Mr. A. Colemar. S.M. (Wanganui), Mr. T. H. B. Evens (Wanganui), and Mr. T. R. Lees (Palmerston North). Decisions announced yesterd-y were.--Appeals Allowed P-.’- .y Augustus Andcr, eppe-t 1:;. self on ground of conscientious objec- ; lion: Appeal allowed, with a recom- ' mendation for alternative service. Maurice Charles Banks, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection: Appeal allowed, with a recommendation for alternative service. Bryant Goldsbury, for whom Mr. R. Brown appeared, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection: Appeal allowed, with a recommendation for alternative service. Douglas Vivian Gray, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection: Appeal allowed, with a recommendation for alternative service. James Henry Thomson, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection; Appeal allowed, with a recommendation for alternative service. Appeals Dismissed Wesley Albert Chambers, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection: Appeal dismissed. Reginald Albert Kendrick-Hunt, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection: Appeal dismissed. Davis Maxwell Tooley, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection: Appeal dismissed. Adjourned Sine Die Stanley Cecil Jennings, appeal by self on grounds of conscientious objection: Adjourned sine die, with a recommendation for alternative service. Jack Albert Lampp, appeal by self on grounds of public interest and undue hardship, co-appellant being his father, A. H. Lampp, on the same grounds: Adjourned sine die.