APPEALS HEARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1940, Page 6

APPEALS HEARD

OBJECTIONS TO TERRITORIAL SERVICE CASES BEFORE MAN POWER COMMITTEE. SITTING IN MASTERTON YESTERDAY. Yesterday's sitting of the Wairarapa District Man Power Committee to hear appeals against Territorial service was completed in the afternoon. The chairman, Mr T. Jordan, presided, and there wore also present. Messrs L. T. Daniell and F. Cole. The following cases were heard after the "Times-Age” went to press yesterday afternoon (in all cases the appeals are on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship):— An appeal by Percy- Donald McLachlan on behalf of Donald Garth McLachlan was adjourned until March 31, 1940. Mr R. R. Burridge appeared on behalf of the co-appel-lant. The manager of Y'ates’s Cash Stores Ltd. (Mr F. K. Brown) appealed on behalf of Arthur Edward Martin. The appeal was dismissed, with the proviso that the appellant was not called up for territorial service until March 15, 1941. An appeal by the Superintendent of the Masterton Fire Brigade (Mr T. B. Clark) on behalf of Noel Everitt was adjourned sine die. An appeal by Graham Speedy Richardson (co-appellant Mr C. T. Richardson, —Mr S. V. Gooding) was adjourned until March 31. 1941. The Masterton Club appealed on behalf of George Edward Baden Parker. The appeal was dismissed, but the appellant would not be called up for Territorial service until December 31, 1940.

An appeal by the Salvation Army on behalf of Raymond Harold Painter was adjourned sine die. The Director, National Service Department, appealed on behalf of Robert Gordon Stuart Bryson; Leslie Gordon Duffy; and Donald Charles McQueen. All the appeals were dismissed but the appellants would not be called up for Territorial service until March 15, 1941. Two of the men concerned were employed on the railways as porters, and cne as a cleaner. An appeal by Joshua McKenzie on behalf of Ralph McKenzie was dismissed,, the appellant not to be caned up for service until December 31, 1940. An appeal by G. O. S. Hall (co-ap-pellant Robert Randolph Burling) was dismissed, with the proviso that the appellant would not be called up for service until March 31, 1941. An appeal by Norman Ralph Jones on behalf of Arthur Norman Jones was dismissed. The appellant would not be called up for territorial service until January 6, 1941. An appeal by Albert Hayden Rose (co-appellant A. D. Carson) was dismissed, the appellant to be called up after December 31, 1940. An appeal by Cyril Knight Binsted (co-appellant Lora R. Amundsen, counsel Mr N. G. Whiteman) was adjourned until March 31, 1941. A similar decision was made in the case of of an appeal lodged by William Robert Dick (co-appellant A. D. Hansen). The following appeals were all dismissed, with the proviso that the appellants would not be called up for Territorial service until March 15, 1941:— „ , Robert Alfred Wilson (co-appellant John McKay): Raymond George Edge Windleborn (G. F. Elliott); John S. McKay (Sir William Perry): Clarence Llewellen Rosson (Edward William Bunny).