APPEAL BOARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 4

APPEAL BOARD

SITTING IN MASTERTON SERVICE WITH FORCES AND HOME GUARD. MANY SINE DIE ADJOURNMENTS. Appeals in respect to military and Home Guard service were heard by the Wairarapa Armed Forces Appeal Board at a sitting held at the Masterton Courthouse today. There were present: Messrs T. Jordan (chairman), L. T. Daniell and F. Cole, members of the board, and Mr G. F. Whitlock, secretary and Crown representative. In the list of cases below the name of the person lodging the appeal is given in parentheses.

Service appeals adjourned sine die: George Edward Clark and John Everest Percy, linesmen (Wairarapa Electric Power Board), reesrvists to remain in the Electric Power E.P.S.; Robert Charles Flint Lamb, farmer (reservist); Thomas Morgan Mulvaney, farmhand (Ethel Mabel Mulvaney); John Hubert Sladden, working farm manager. (Hubert Sladden); John Robert Sutherland, farm manager (Ronald Jackson Pike); John William Grant, shepherd (Henry Heathcote Mawley); Neville Cundy, farm manager (John Cheston Broad and Alan S. Creswell); Eric Charles Cottle, farmer (Trustees Est. A. B. Cottle); John Francis Cooper, farmer (reservist); Frank Theobald Day, sheep farmer (reservist); Frederick Walter Morrell (assistant to milk vendor), reservist to join the E.P.S. within seven days.

George Ropata Workman, ambulance driver (Wairarapa Hospital Board); Noel Gisborne Massey, electrical engineer (Wairarapa Hospital Board); James William Brewster (Masterton Fire Board); Albert Edward Lawson, Charles Edward Nicholls, Charles Thomas Roff, Herbert Coates Denny, John Francis Collins, Geoffrey Vivian Henderson, Ronald Godfrey Hills, members of the Masterton Emergency Fire Service (Masterton Fire Board). ' Service appeals adjourned: David Antill Gawith, shepherd (A. C. Gawith), until October 31, 1942; Lewis Alfred Edward Holmes, farm manager (Wairarapa Primary Production Council), until next Masterton sitting of board. James McDonald, sharemilker (H. Morrison), until January 31, 1943. Service postponed: Laurence James Reed, hotel keeper (reservist), not to be called before January 31, 1943. Several appeals against service in the Home Guard, and applications for the release of men from camp were dealt

with. Six in the former class were adjourned sine die, and one until the next sitting of the board.

(Proceeding.)