DISTRICT APPEALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1942, Page 4

DISTRICT APPEALS

SERVICE WITH ARMED FORCES SITTING OF WAIRARAPA BOARD. LARGE NUMBER OF CASES DEALT WITH. Appeals in respect to service with the armed forces were heard in Masterton yesterday by the Wairarapa Armed Forces Appeal Board. There were present: Messrs T. Jordan (chairman), L. T. Daniell and J. W. Lewis, and the secretary and Crown representative, Mr G. F. Whitlock. The name of the person lodging the appeal is given in parentheses in the details of cases given below. Adjourned sine die: John Leonard Leslie Wood, civil servant (Social Security Department); George Arthur Barr (Grade III.), civil servant (Social Security Department)-'; Kenneth Francis Button, clergyman (Bishop of Wellington) ; Noel Derwent Bach, police officer (Director of National Service). Appeals lodged by New Zealand Railways: Louis Rickards, tablet porter; Eric Wallace Nind and Jack O’Brien, stationmasters; Rex Harry Rasmussen and John Wilkins, clerks, Traffic Branch; James Young, shift clerk (Traffic Branch; Frank Roy Duffy, surfaceman (Maintenance Branch)); Lewis Anderson, skilled labourer. Appeals lodged by Messrs Thos. Borthwick and Sons, Ltd.: Reginald John Munro, Douglas Henry Welch, William Alexander Hood, Arthur Douglas Griggs, John Drummond Bolton, freezing works employees; Clarence Hectoi’ Skeet, slaughterman; Roy Jeremiah Harrington, carpenter; Allan Douglas Shrimpton, fitter and turner; Sydney James O’Connor, Leonard Thomas McKenzie, Trevor Alfred Attree, beef boners.

Appeals adjourned: Bertie George Dean,' bricklayer (T. Borthwick and Sons, Ltd.), until June 30, 1943. Service postponed: Patrick Cyril Wilson, railway porter (N.Z. Railways), until December 31, 1942; Reginald Gordon Field, farmer (R. L. Field), until February 28, 1943; George Thomas Sullivan, driver (T. O’Connor), until December 31, 1942. Appeals by T. Borthwick and Sons, Ltd. -Oscar Leslie Gaskin, Laurence Herbert Graham, Ralph Eric Voice, slaughtermen, until June 30, 1943; Robert John Crothers, offal department; William James C. George, casing worker; Robert John Cooke, casing worker, until May 31, 1943; John Arthur Taplin, wool classer; Patrick James O’Connor, wool worker; William T. C. Gleeson, wool sorter, until June 30, 1943. A soldier, Morgan Brynmer Jenkins, appealed against overseas service. The appeal was dismissed, subject to reservist doing non-combatant service. In the case of Donald A. Hunn, civil servant (Public Trustee), who voluntarily enlisted for service overseas, service was postponed until December 31, 1942.