MILITARY SERVICE

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21368, 12 March 1941, Page 9

MILITARY SERVICE

APPEAL BOARD HEARING CASES AT TE AWAMUTU The No. 2 Armed forces Appeal Board sat at Te Avvamutu yesterday, the personnel of the board being Messrs S. L. Paterson, S.M., A. E Manning and R. Coulter, with Mr G. Grace as secretary and Mr D. J. B. Seymour as Crown representative. Most of the cases heard were appeals in the public interest and undue hardship category, and some of the appellants had not been drawn in ballots for overseas service. The board, after hearing evidence in support of written statements, granted sine die adjournments in the cases of Bruce Frederick Ganley, P. J. Goodwin. Kenneth Alfred Hall, Eric Wilfred Sklenars, Ernest Clifford Budden, Alfred Ashton Robottom, and Josiah Charles Oates, all undue hardship and public interest; Alfred William Bennett, undue hardship, and John Turney and Ronald Spiers, public interest. Ernest Lawrence Taylor asked that he be given exemption until May 31, j and this the board granted. Conscientious Objectors Charles Russell Jacobsen, membei of the sect known as the Brethren, appealed as a conscientious objector, i He said he was willing to do nonI combanr' work. The board decided , to adjourn this case until its next Te Awamutu sitting. | A willingness to do civilian work i only, but not work of a military j nature, was expressed by Gilbert ! Ernest Hannah, a member of the ! body known as the Christians. He i answered a number of questions, after which the board reserved its ; decision. i Another member of the same body, j Lindsay Edwin Murphy, said he was 1 willing to do productive work only. ! Decision in his case was also reserved. The appeal of Devnis Cahill, a conscientious objector, heard at the last Te Awamutu sitting, and adjourned, was withdrawn by consent. Three employees of the Waikeria Borstal institution were appealed for by the Director of National Service, and in each case adjournment sine : die was granted. The men were | Warren Newton Gordge, Kenneth I Murdo Urquhart (warder), and Ali bert Collingwood Hutchinson (elecj trician). The Director had appealed in the public interest.