APPEAL BOARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1942, Page 4

APPEAL BOARD

SITTING AT MASTERTON LARGE NUMBER OF CASES •4 DEALT WITH. SINE DIE ADJOURNMENTS.The Masterton Armed Forces Appeal Board concluded its sitting in Masterton yesterday afternoon. There were present: Messrs T. Jordan (chairman), L T .Daniell, F. Cole and G. F. Whitlock (secretary and Crown representative). Appeals lodged by the Director of National Service on behalf of Thomas Borthwick and Sons (A’asia), Ltd., were dealt with as follows: — Adjourned sine die: Harry McLeod Ewen, pie woolpicker; Charles Alexander Frances, pelt classer; John Thomas Baxter Ryder and William Fraser McDonald, wool classers; Walter Ernest O. B. Mosen, hide flesher; Frank Charles s Palmer, stockman; John Edward Gordon, fireman; Thos. Stanley H. Nixon, fitter; Eric Arthur William Pool, electrician; Arthur James Chappell and Harold E. Trass, beef butchers. Adjourned to June 30, 1943: Edward James Carter, beef boner; James Ernest Taplin, Donald Douglas Lochore, Wilfred Oliver Geange, Thomas Henry Ftzmaurice, Thomas Barton Edwards, mutton butchers; Lawrence Kenneth Brady, mutton boner Appeals lodged by the Director of National Service for the following were adjourned sine die: Edward Fitzgerald Barry .police officer; John Douglas Gilies, police officer; Alexander Gordon Hogg, police officer; Eian Bruce McCallum, police officer; Robert J. Berry, police constable; Sydney Phillip Kingston, linesman (P. and T. Department). An appeal lodged by Dr. John Rich was adjourned sine die. Appeals lodged by the Masterton Fire Board for Charles Richard Reid, auxiliary fireman and Mown Edward Haughey, fireman-driver, were adjourned sine die, Appeals lodged by the Director of National Service on behalf of New Zealand Railways were dealt with as follows:—

Adjourned sine die: Alfred Edwin Knutson, George Clarence Scott, engine drivers; Gordon Reginald Walton, fireman; Allenby Henry A. Tripe, Ernest Joseph Lowen, cleaners; Graham Gordon Murrell, fitter; Jack Albert Ernest. Brooker, Ernest Alexander Pickett, John Hugh Clarke, porters; Charles Bruce Mclsaac, tablet porter; Keith Robert Coley, Malcolm Dunbai' Cooper, Henry Matthew Hutchinson, George Tyson Hodgson, Arthur Vernon Brabant, surfacemen.

Service postponed to April 30, 1943: Edward V. B. Flynn, Clarence F. Faulkner, and Donald E. Hodgson, cleaners-acting fireman. In the following cases the name of the person lodging the appeal is given in parentheses: s Service postponed: James Bell, plasterer (G. Masters), to March 31, 1943.

Adjourned sine die: Clarence W. Corlett, bush mill hand (I. Allen & Son, Ltd.); Leonard Guy Wilton, farm hand (L. R. Wilton); Peter On Hing, fruiterer’s assistant (Harry On Hing); Robert W. Henricksen, shepherd (Native Trustee); Gordon H. Wilkin, dairyfarm hand (F. C. Wilkin); Victor R. Harrod, bushman (C. E. Daniell. Ltd). Reservist opposed the appeal; John Reynell Neild, clergyman (the Bishop of Wellington); John Charles Welham Mutter, clergyman (the Bishop of Wellington); William Edward Moore, minister of religion (President of Methodist Church of New Zealand); lan Herbert Kirk Hopper, minister of religion (President of Methodist Church of New Zealand); lan Taylor, stock buyer (Gear Meat Company, Ltd.)