THREE YEARS AS MESS ORDERLY
—_ AIRCRAFTSMAN APPEALS FOR RELEASE " Tire Press" Special Service WHANGAREI, June 1. Feeling that he was not doing a man’s job and that he would be more useful in civilian life, Aircraftsman A. P. Dowson appealed before Hie No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board at Kaitaia to be withdrawn from the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Dowson said that since joining the Air Force he had been a mess orderly for nearly three years at three air stations. He was a qualified shop butcher, with nine years’ experience, and had work waiting for him with an Auckland Arm if he could be released. He had tried to get a transfer to an air crew, but was rejected as medically unfit, He had also been unsuccessful in attempts to get into the armoury section and into the Army, He was married with one child. “Yes. I am quite domesticated,” replied the reservist to a board member who suggested that he was getting a lot of domestic experience as a mess orderly. “It is not a man’s job,” he added, "and I feel I would be doing a better job as a civilian.” Dowson said he was willing to work at a freezing works, although he was a shop butcher and not a slaughterman. The board reserved its decision.
PLUNKET SOCIETY
* NEW SUB-BRANCH FORMED A public meeting was held recently in the Fendaltqn Parish Hall for the purpose of forming a sub-branch of the Plunket Society at Fendalton. Mr M. H. Godby presided and Mrs Cecil Wood (acting-president of the Christchurch branch) outlined the aims and objects of the society. It was decided to form a sub-branch and tbe following officers were elected:—President, Mrs L. B. Stevens: vice-presidents, Mftdames I. Sewell, L. Cordery, and .0. Wilkinson; honorary secretary, Mrs C. C. Holland; honorary treasurer, Mrs H. Goggin; committee, Mesdames F. B, Redgrave, H. Rennie, S. J. Moore, J. Pottinger, F. J. Pretch, N. Batchelor, Miller, R. de G. Robilliard, C. Malthus, D. McCready, Boyd-Clark, J. Watts, Head, D. Orchard, and A. Boulton. Apparently, occupants of a police cell are not safe against the operations of thieves, according to evidence given before Mr E. C. Dewey, S.M.. in the Christchurch Magistrate's Court yesterday. A youth, who had been remanded on Monday to appear at Dunedin to-morrow on a charge of unlawfully converting a car to his own use, was placed in the same cell as a youth of 17 years, charged with the theft of a watch. During the night both were examining a signet ring belonging to the former, who missed it when the police visited the cell yesterday morning. A search revealed the ring on a toe of the man who had been charged with theft. He was wearing it under his boot and sock when the police held an undress parade, and he faced a second charge of theft later in the
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23963, 2 June 1943, Page 5
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