WAIROA APPEALS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20660, 10 January 1942, Page 3

WAIROA APPEALS

MAN-POWER COMMITTEE

MANY CASES HEARD

(Herald Correspondent.) . , Several appeals for members of the, National Military Reserve were heard at a sitting of the No. 7 Area Man-Power Committee in Wairoa yesterday. Mr. C. A. Maddison presided, and with him wei'e Messrs. J. J. Morphy and F. It. Field, and Mr. C. H. Dempsey, secretary. Sergeant C:.L. (louden appeared for the Army Department. National Military Reserve.—Graham S. Bond, chief clerk (McCulloch, Butler and Spence), grounds of public interest ami undue hardship, released for service; Brim gar George Signnll, county clerk, Wairoa County Council, grounds of -public interest (Wairoa County Council), lan Cathcart Moode, assistant clerk, and Itex W. Hawthorne, county engineer (Wairoa County Council), exemption from National Military Reserve granted; F. H. Mnrdon. head of the live stock department (Swifts N.Z. Ltd.), grounds public interest, adjourned until April for review, to be available immediately in the event of enemy action ; Erik Ericksen, farmer (appellant), grounds of public interest and undue hardship (Mr. C. V. Chamberlain), released forthwith, with right of appeal* if and when his son is called up in tiie air force; William George Ross, farm manager (Dr. ,1. Ross), grounds of public interest and undue hardship (Mr. C. V. Chamberlain), adjourned till April for review, but to be available to his unit in the event ; of enemy action; Victor Emanuel Winter, partner in grocery business (Winter Bros.), ground of public interest and undue hardship (Mr. 'C. R. Sainsbury), adjourned until February 2 for review; James Walter Ebbitt, grocery assistant (Winter Bros.), grounds of public interest and undue hardship, released on February 2; Jack Langley P rubble, jeweller and watchmaker (appellant), grounds of public interest and undue hardship (Mr. C. R. Sainsbury), adjourned until March sitting, to be available in the event of enemy action; J. de Gruchy, assistant plant supervisor (Swifts, N.Z., Ltd.), grounds of public interest, released, but granted leave from camp to attend the company’s urgent business: E. J. Krogh, officer in charge of all shipping (Swifts. N.Z., Ltd.), grounds of public in tercsti adjourned until April 1 for review, but to be available immediately in the event of enemy action ; R. Bauld, foreman freezing chambers (Swifts. N.Z., Ltd.l. grounds of public interest, adjourned until April 1, for review, but to be available immediately in the event of enemy action; W. Reynolds, officer in charge of weighing and cooling floor (Swifts, N.Z., Ltd.), grounds of public interest, released on February 10, with a recommendation that the union consider employing female labour; S. Standring, officer in charge of plant records (Swifts, N.Z., Ltd.), on ground of public interest, released on February 10 with a recommendation that the union consider employing female labour; A. McErlich, head shepherd (Swifts, N.Z., Ltd.), grounds of public interest, adjourned sine die: A. D. Smith, head shepherd, adjourned sire die, as In as F. J. McKinnon remains in the National Military Reserve and to stay in the employment of Mr. McKinnon ; also to be available immediately in the event of enemy action. Territorials. —D. Vickers, fat stock draftei (Swifts', N.Z., Ltd.), grounds of publicinterest, released for the April intake; W. Hunt, sole beef and mutton butcher (Swifts. N.Z., Ltd.), grounds of interest, adjourned sine die; Peter Francis Cm farm hand (Stewart Crarer), grounds public interest and undue hardship, relieved of Territorial service, but to be placed in the National Military Reserve on February 2.