ARMED FORCES APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23965, 4 June 1943, Page 3

ARMED FORCES APPEALS

». GASES HEARD BY NO. 1 BOARD An appeal for two Grade 1 men engaged in manufacturing essential instruments for the Army was heard by the. No. i Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday, when Mr E. A. Lee presided. The appellants were Wilfred Leonard Brown, a brass finisher and engineer, and Alan Stanley Hobbs, a patternmaker, both employed by the firm of W. H. Price and employees, stated Mr W. H. Price, who appeared in support of the appeals, were working on the production of clinometers. which required careful adjusting. A clinometer is a precision instrument used for measuring angles of - elevation or declination, and in this case v/ere being manufactured for use on ma-chine-guns. Six hundred of these instruments were being made at present, said Mr Price. The firm had contracted to make 2000 tljli, year, he said. Both appeals were adjourned sine die on the ground of the public interest. Decisions announced by the board yesterday were:—Joseph Andrew Hay (1), furniture manufacturer (appellant), dismissed. mobilisation deferred until June 30; George Sydney Gunn (1), turner, Herbert Murray Lane (1), fitter and turner, John Edwin Bedelph (1), fitter. Gordon Wilfred Badger (1), turner (F. C. Penfold and Company, Ltd.), adjourned for review in two mouths; Maurice John Case (1), farmhand (W. Case), dismissed, appellant not to bo called before July 31; Henry William Smith (1). farmer (Director of National Service), adjourned sine die; Wilfred Leonard Brown (1), brass finisher and engineer, and Alan Stanley Hobbs (1). patternmaker (W. H. Price and Sou, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Frederick Davies Price (1). fitter and turner (W. H. Price and Son, Ltd.), dismissed, appellant not to be called before August 31; Gordon Muir Brown (1), slaughterman’s assistant (L. G. Blumsky), adjourned for two months; Henry Charles Tomlinson (1), farmhand (G. Tomlinson), dismissed, appellant not to be called before June’3o; Leslie Thomas Aitchison (1), company manager (Vacuum Oil Company Pty., Ltd.), stood down pending decision in appeal for release of Lieuienatit-Colonel A. H. Thomas; Joyce Harrison (1), farmer (Director of National Service), adjourned for one month; David Alexander Blyth (H.G.). adjourned sine dfe; Charles Lawrence Dennis (H.G.), transferred to E.P.S.; Frank Vivian Harris (1), labourer (Christchurch 1 Drainage Board), adjourned for one month; William Henry Willetts (1), ' butcher (W. H. Willetts), dismissed, appellant not to be called before August 31; Bernar Joseph Kiesanowki (1), market gardener (Director of National Service), adjourned for review in two months; Alister Eaton Mac Donald (1). Mrs E. G. Mac Donald, mother, dismissed.

DECISIONS OF NO. 2 BOARD

With the exception of one case, appeals heard by the No. 2 Armed Forces i Appeal Board yesterday were for Grade i i men, and because of the essential nature of their work most were granted i sine die adjournments. Four cases were I withdrawn. i Decisions were given as follows:—Ar--1 thur Neil Duff (grade 1), buyer (Drayton Jones, Ltd.), adjourned sine die, reserv- > Ist to do Home Guard- service; Robert ' Kirby Duncan (1), plasterer (T, Hathers ley. Ltd.),- adjourned sine die. reservist • to do Home Guard training; Ronald Dun- > can (1), market gardener, dismissed, ret servist not to be called before August' 31; • David Douglas Butcher (1), student, not to be posted overseas before December; 1 Max Graham Eden (1), pinsetter (A. J. • G. Russell), adjourned sine die, reservist ‘ to do Home Guard training; Sydney 1 George Faulkner (1), foreman, dismissed 1 conditionally, reservist not to be called • before August 31; Basil Alfred Fitzpatrick 1 (1), buyer (J. Montgomery and Com- ' pany), dismissed conditionally, reservist not to be called up before August 31; : Seddon Stirling Floyd (1). toolmaker ' (Alec Farrar, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Harold Robert Forbes (1), tractor ser- ; viceman (A. C. Harrison), adjourned sine ‘ die; Arthur Robert Norman Foubister (1), 1 chemist (J. G. Hanaflri). adjourned sine die. reservist to do Home Guard training; John Alexander Fraser (1), packer--1 man (Zcalandia Milling Company, Ltd.), [ adjourned sine die; Robert George Fraser . (1). moulder (H. Willis. Ltd.), adjourned sine-die; Herbert Charles Freed), but- , cher (Free Bros.), adjourned sine.die; Edr . mund James Freeman (1), orchardlst, ad- [ journed. .sine .die;.. Eric.. Robert.-Lawson . Galt (1), loom tuner (Akaroa Homespun I Tweeds,. Ltd.), dismissed conditionally, • not to be called before November 30; 1 James Thomas Gamblin . (3), orcha'rdist j (F. E. Taylor), adjourned sine die on s medical grading; Wallace Lloyd Grenfell > (1), engineer (Bunting Company, Ltd.). 1 adjourned sine die; Reginald Grlmwood ■ (1), grocer (Akaroa Supply Company, Ltd,), adjourned sine die; Colin Charles : Groves (1), foreman (Pioneer Manufacturing Comopany. Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Ernest David Gyde (1),. foreman , joiner (G. R. Gyde), adjourned sine die; j Eric Sydney Kitchener Hands (1), baker (G. Batstohe), adjourned sine-die, reservist to do Home Guard training; Stanley Bramwell Hann (1), farm hand (A. Hann), adjourned sine die; Dave Harris (1), machinist (R. A. Hammersley, Ltd.), dismissed conditionally, reservist not to be called before November 30; Joseph Peter Gannon (1), refrigerator engineer (E. G. Patton, Ltd.), adjourned sine die, reservist to do Home Guard training; William Arthur Hardie (1), flbrollte worker (J. Burns and Company, Ltd.), dismissed conditionally, reservist not to be called before November 30.