ARMED FORCES APPEALS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23969, 9 June 1943, Page 4

ARMED FORCES APPEALS

DECISIONS OF NO. I BOARD

An appeal for a farmer who was grade II for the Army, and yet fit for overseas service with the Air Force, was heard by the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board during its session yesterday The appellant was Francis Rawson Davison, a farmer in partnership with his brother at Lowry Peaks. North Canterbury, The two brothers, F. R. Davison and John Hawdon Davison, managed and worked the 3642 acre farm on which they ran 2600 sheep and grew 400 acres of crops, with the assistance of one farmhand.

Francis Rawson Davison said that he would rather go Into camp himself and leave his brother to look after the property. The physical disability from which he suffered, and which caused his being graded II for Army purposes, was flat feet. This, however, did not debar him from the Air Force, and he hoped to be accepted for air crew training. The appeal of F. R. Davison was dis-' missed, and his brother's was adjourned sine die.

Yesterday’s decisions were as follows (all appellants are grade I unless otherwise stated):—Desmond Henry Tomkies, woolsorter (Director of National Service), adjourned (or review In three months; Maurice Douglas Chapman, machine operator (Cyclone Fence and Gate Company), adjourned for review in three months: James MacLaren Christie (reboarded 3) accountant (Gough, Gough, and Hamer. Ltd.), adjourned sine die because of medical grading; Vaughan Edward Carrington, baker (R. S Smlth-Richardson), adjourned sine die; Ronald Herbert Horace Ball cutter (Mrs E. F Ball), adjourned for two months; Oswald James (3). mental hospital emoloyee’ (Director of National Service), adjourned sine die: George William Hubbard, machine operator (Empire Rubber Mills, Ltd.), adjourned for two months; Edward Thomas Griffin, painter (appellant), adjourned for one month; Frank Adams Harris, carpenter (J W Harris), adjourned for three months; Alfred George Habgocd, farmer (appellant), reserved; Nye Willis, shearer (Director of National Service) adjourned sine die; Ronald Miles Luke (2), dairyman (apnellant), adjourned sine die; Francis David Rogal, farmhand (F. Rogal. father) adjourned for two months: Charles John Harrourt (H.G.). farmer, transferred to E.PS.; Francis Rawson Davison (2), farmer (appellant), dismissed; John Hawdon Davison, farmer (F. R. Davison), adjourned sine die.

DECISIONS OF NO. 2 BOARD

Nearly 40 appeals, lodged by the Director of National Service, for permanent employees of the Public Works Department were heard yesterday by the No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board. With a few exceptions these men were grade 1, and all were doing work of national importance. The appeals had already been considered, and reports had been furnished to the board by the Special Appeals Advisory Committee in Wellington Elon Percy (grade 1), chief clerk m the electrical section of the Public Works Department, opposed an appeal for him. stating that he wished to serve. After reserving their decision, the board dismissed the appeal conditionally that Percy should not be called up to go to camp before September 30. In the case of Horace Catlow (grade it. a soldier who appealed tor release from camp on the ground of his wife’s state of health, the board recommended that he should not be sent overseas before December 31, that he should be granted special leave at the time of his wife's confinement, and if practicable that he should be transferred to a unit of training in the vicinity of Christchurch This case came before the board last week

In the Public Works Department’s appeals. the following decisions were given Staff. R. D. A. Gardiner (1), clerk, dismissed, not to be called up before three months: Ernest Styles (1), clerk, dismissed. not to be called up before August 31: James Somers (1), cost clerk, dismissed. not to be called before June 30; Francis Doan Ritchie (1), engineer, adjourned sine die; Robert Lang Lindsay (1), engineer, dismissed, not to be called up before July 8; George Davidson Griffiths (1). architect draughtsman, adjourned sine die; Charles John Bell (1), foreman plant operator, to be reviewed in three months; Arnold John Morlev (L, engineer's assistant, adjourned sine die; Reginald Claude Cunningham (1). head chainman, to be reviewed in three months; lan Alexander McLachlan (1), assistant plant engineer, adjourned sine die; Edward Eric Lawrence (1). assistant engineer, adjourned sine die; Edward George McKenzie (I), foreman, adjourned sine die; Cecil Samuel Condon, wharf constructor, adjourned sine die; Charles Major Barnett (1). surveyor, adjourned sine die. Workmen; Clarence William Henry Aker (1). truck-driver, adjourned sine die; Harold George Joines (II). road surfaceman, adjourned sine die; Arthur Stanley Joines (1), grader-driver, adjourned sine die; Stanley Seddon le Vaillant (1). grader-driver, not to be called before July 15; Sidney Leeson and James Robert McPherson (II), tunnellers, not to be called before August 10; John Hogg (I), bulldozer driver, not to be called before August 20; H. P. Kerr (1). fitter and mechanic, adjourned sine die; James Owen Prendergasl (III), wharf constructor. adourned sine die; Ivan Albert Thomson (1), tunneller. not to be called before the end of September: Trevor Patrick Kerr (1), casual labourer, not to be called before July 31; Stuart McMillan, tractor-driver, not to be called before August 10; Stanley Gordon Kennedy (ID, dragline operator, adjourned sine die. Electrical section: Douglas Sinclair Gower (1). engineer’s assistant, adjourned sine die; Charles Joseph McNee (1). rigger, adjourned sine die; Reginald John Fyfe (1). electrical engineer, adjourned sine die; Melville Cecil Rollings (I) sub-station operator, adjourned sine die; G, Y Hamber (1), sub-station Operator. adjourned sine die; George Roberts (II) line foreman, adjourned sine die; George Clancy (1). power-house attendant, adjourned sine die. Other decisions were given as follows: Maurice Walter Simes (grade 1), barrister and solicitor, withdrawn; Robert Joseph Hampton (1). monumental mason, release from camp for three months recommended; Robert Fulton (1), inspector (Director of National Service), appeal dismissed: Norman Patrick Alcorn (1), chemist, James Ferrier McCahon (1), assistant physicist; lonoval Ellice Jones (1), assistant engineer: William Henry Jordan (1), agricultural worker; and Francis Ash McNeil (1). radio physicist (Director of National Service), appeals

adjourned sine die; John Gordon Voyce (1), marine engineer (Navy Office), adjourned sine die; Sidney William Paul Jones (1), clerk, and Geoffrey Charles Garwood Dawe (1), draughtsman (Director of National Service), appeals adjourned sine die; Gordon Thomas Holmes (III), clerk (Director of National Service), adjourned sine die, on account of medical grading: Alfred Cecil Rhodes (temporarily unfit), motor engineer, adjourned sine die; John P. Barton (1), farm hand, dismissed. not to be called up before July 1; Owen G. King (1), factory hand (B L Hart and Company), adjourned for medical reboarding: William Lyall Harris (1), transport driver (W. L. Harris, sen,), dismissed, not to be called before August 31; Stanley Richard- Inwood (1). farm hand (D. G. McFadden). sine die; John Mason Chamberlain (1). farm hand (T. C Chamberlain), dismissed, not to be called before August 31; James Henry Malcolm Irving (1). pharmaceutical chemist (D. S. Dodds, Ltd.), adjourned sine die; Trevor Harold Jensen (D. packer, adjourned sine die; Neil Albert Jones (1), baker (Free Bros.), adjourned sine die; Noel Benjamin Jardin (1). and Stanley ARan Joyce (1), truck-drivers (Director of National Service), adjourned sine die..