MILITARY APPEALS

Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21708, 20 April 1942, Page 4

MILITARY APPEALS

1 HAMILTON SITTING EARLIER CASES REVIEWED Thirty-four appeals were heard at the Hamilton sitting today of the No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board, Messrs S. L. Paterson, S.M. (chairman), A. E. Manning and R. Coulter. Many of the cases were reviews of appeals heard earlier. The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, for which V. . Y. Kirkman appeared, appealed for two or its employees and supported appeals by the Director cf National Service for two other employees. The men were Ronald Joseph Hamblin. Horace Clifford Parsons. Edgar Arthur Dix and James Anderson Johnstone. quired for the usual winter overhaul of factory plants. The other three reservists were cheese factory assistants. All four were granted sine die , adjournment, the cases of Johnstone and Dix to be transferred to the tribunal exercising jurvdiction over the territorials. 1 The appeal by the Director of National Service for Roderick Hector Blair, log bandsaw carriageman at I the New Zealand Railways mill at i Maroa, was supported in evidence by D. Corkery, senior clerk of the rail- . ways sawmill department, who said Blair was a specially skilled man in jan important position. A sine die j adjournment was granted, j Request for Later Release j D. B. Livingstone asked leave to | withdraw his appeal for David Liv- ! ingstone, farmer, Tuhikaramea, if it i were possible for the reservist to be released from camp duties during peak times, especially for shearing, j The application was adjourned sine ; die. the reservist transferred to terrij torial status, and a recommendation | will be made later to the military authorities for the reservist's release for special farm work. I A. C. Burgess, secretary to the i Waikato Hospital Board, supported the Director's formal appeal for two hospital orderlies. Albert George Swetman and James Cameron McCabe. Witness said there was al- , ways a shortage of orderlies, and at j present there were six below requirej rnents. Vacancies had been advertised. The normal staff of orderlies ; and porters was 40. Both reservists j were .experienced in their duties j The appeals were adjourned for one ; month. | Adjournments Granted I Other decisions were.— ments: F. E. B. Lovelock for James jT. Searancke, sharemilker, Eureka, : until the first sitting after June 1. : Withdrawn by leave: Royston W. . Clarkin, farm hand, Eureka; J. A. Bagust for Keith S. Bird, now in camp; T. J. McGowan for Gordon T. McGowan. i Sine die adjournment.—Mrs F. A. Milne for John M. Milne, farm hand, Matangi; H. R. Mudford for George G. Mudford, farm manager, Walton; Norman T. Westlake, farmer. Te Pahu; L. Follett for Hubert A. Thurston. farm manager, Te Pahu; J. Harris for Jack G. Harris, farm labourer, Puketaha (transferred to Territorial status until July 31); Director for Seiwyn S. Limmer, farm hand, Koromatua; Harold Jackson, sharemilker, Frankton; Norman L. Macky, sharemilker, Matangi; Jack Humphrey, farmer, Gordonton; Mrs A. M. Humphrey for Colin W. Humphrey, farm hand, Gordonton; Alice L. Ellice for Francis A. Ellice, farm hand, Newstead; Kate S. Johns for Alton S. Johns, farm labourer, Eureka; Lilian A. Grocock for Edward G. Grocock, farm assistant, Rukuhia (transferred to Territorial status till July 31); J. H. Taylor for Clifford G. Taylor, sharemilker, Matangi; Director for Edward Mackie, farm hand, Tauwhare; F. T. Tucker for Frank R. Tucker, farm hand, Matangi. Appeals Dismissed : Appeals dismissed were those of A. Hirst, Hamilton East, for Stanley Arthur Hirst, farmer, Manawaru (not to be called to camp before May 31); John Malcolm Milne, farm hand, Matangi; Ernest Owen Walter McConnell, farmer, Rototuna (May 31); C. L. Hunter for William Roy Hunter sharepiilker, Te Poi (May 31); Mrs A. B.’ Brewerton for Lawrence W. Brewerton, jewellery manufacturer, Hamilton; Harold C. Wood, insurance inspector, Hamilton, appealing' on conscientious grounds, recommended for service only in a medical corps.