ARMED FORCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1942, Page 4

ARMED FORCES

SITTING OF WAIRARAPA BOARD DISTRICT APPEALS HEARD. RELEASES FROM CAMP. At a sitting of the Wairarapa Armed Forces Appeal Board, held in Masterton yesterday, a large number of appeals in respect to service with the armed forces and applications for the release of men from camp were dealt with. The chairman, Mr T. Jordan, presided, and there were also present Messrs L. T. Daniel, and F. Cole, mem-, bers of the board, and Mr G .F. Whitlock, secretary and Crown representative.

In. the list of cases given below the name of the person lodging the appeals is given in parentheses: Adjourned sine die: Edgar W. Wright, shepherd (Native Trustee); Hubert Watts, Bryan J. K. Rush, Joseph F. Oliver, tablet porters, Claude W. V. Pyke, Leslie R. McKain, porters, Raymond J. Leatham, James A. Renton, Raymond A. Grantham, clerks, all employees of New Zealand Railways (Director of National Service); Sydney T. Jago, Mervyn J. O’Loughlin, surfacemen.

Appeals lodged by Director of National Service in respect to employees of Messrs Thomas Borthwick and Sons, Ltd.: Adjourned sie die, Francis N. Meyrick, electrical engineer, Edwin M. Spicer, pelt curer, Allan B. McMaster, sheherd, George E. R. Miller, freezing worker. Norman Olsen, limer, Horace M. Johns, freezer hand, Walter N. F. Quayle, wool classer, reservists to do training in August. September and October, subject also to service in the Home Guard. Erl W. Compton, Raymond S. Harman, beef butchers, James L. Allan, slaughterman, Thomas Bell, cooper, subject to service in the Home Guard. Robert D. Macnee, labourer, shearer, freezer hand, Harry Pointon, butcher, no . conditions.

Adjourned: James McDonald, farmhand (Hugh Morrison) until next sitting; William H. Tooley, labourer (Farmers’ Mauriceville Lime Co.), until October 31; Onslow W. C. Thompson, spray enameller (N. R. Cunningham, Ltd.), until August 31. Applications for release of men from camp: Noel T. Wyeth, sheepfarmer (self) from August 15 to September 15; Bruce Scott, shepherd (Est. late G. Pain), from August 11 to December 31; William J. Blinkhorne, shepherd (G. H. Ruston), .from. August 1 to September 30; Bruce C. Harris, farmer (S. R. Harris), from August 1 to August 31; Gordon S. Cooper, farmer (Peter Cooper), from August 1 to January 31, 1943; Erl Wyeth, tractor driver (D. N. Macaulay), from August 1 to December 31; Lloyd M. Smith, farmhand (William Smith), indefinitely, subject to Home Guard service; Sydney J. King, joiner (W. S. King), until September 30; Walter H. Ward, farmer (Wairarapa Primary Production Council), indefinitely, subject to specified acreage of wheat being grown; Crawley A. Johnson, shepherd (J. C. Bidwill), until September 30; Jack West, shepherd (Harry West), from August 1 to January 1, 1943; Clifford J. B. Chapman, clerk (Thos. Borthwick and Sons, Ltd.), from August 1 to November 30; Leonard A. Daysh, farmhand (A. R. A. Daysh). indefinitely, subject to Home 1 Guard service.