ARMED FORCES
APPEALS AGAINST SERVICE
SITTING OF BOARD
The Armed Forces Appeal Board — Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M. (chairman). and Messrs H. Hodgson and J. Price — continued its Dunedin silting yesterday. Mr A. N. Haggitt appeared for the Director of National Service.
Scheelite Miners
The Inspector of Mines appealed on behalf of Andrew Elliot Paulin, George Adam Cruickshank, and Donald McLennan Kearney, all scheelite miners, on the grounds of public interest. There was also an appeal by the Director of National Service on behalf of Cruickshank, on similar grounds. — Thomas McMillan, inspector of mines, said there was a shortage of scheelite miners, and scheelite was needed for war purposes. — The appeals were adjourned sine die. — An appeal on behalf of Hugh Lloyd Lawrence Fraser was withdrawn, as Fraser had recently left the mine where he was employed. Horatio Herbert Braid, a scheelite miner, appealed on the grounds of national interest and undue hardship. The appeal on the former ground was adjourned sine die. and the appeal on the ground of undue hardship was dismissed. -Otago Daily Times, 22/5/1941.
ENGAGEMENTS
The engagement has been announced between Horatio Herbert, son of Mr and Mrs G. Braid, of Orepuki, and Valmai Patricia, youngest daughter of Mrs R. Anderson, of Otatara, and the late J. R. Affleck, of Glentunnel. -Otago Daily Times, 28/3/1942.
An inquest into the death of Horatio Herbert Braid, a scheelite miner, formerly of Glenorchy, who was accidentally shot in the leg at Port William (Stewart Island) on Saturday afternoon and died in the Southland hospital on Saturday afternoon, was opened in Invercargill recently. The evidence showed that Wm. Braid, brother of deceased, was in the act of unloading a .303 rifle in a boat when it discharged. The bullet went through the planking of the deck and shot deceased in the leg. He was removed to Bluff and taken to hospital where he died. The inquest was adjourned. -Lake Wakatip Mail, 29/7/1943.
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