§ 42. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Minister of National Service whether his attention has been called to the case of G. J. Worcester, aged thirty-eight, Grade 2, whose appeal was recently dismissed by the Middlesex Appeal Tribunal and is due to join up on 11th July; whether he is aware that this man's daughter of eighteen years was, on the 15th of June, accidentally killed by a motor omnibus while cycling, that as a result his wife is suffering from nervous prostration and shock, that her condition is causing her medical attendant considerable anxiety, who has certified that freedom from worry and careful nursing are essential for her further recovery, and that this can only be gained by the continued presence of her husband; and, seeing that the man applied to the Appeal Tribunal for an extension of time to enable his wife to recover from their loss and 154 that such application was refused, whether he will cause inquiries to be made with a view to an extension of time being granted?
§ Sir A. GEDDESI have inquired into this case, and have ascertained that the whole of the circumstances were before the Middlesex Appeal Tribunal when they refused to give Mr. Worcester any extension of time. The directors of National Service of the National Service regions have a certain discretion to suspend the issue of calling-up notices in particular cases, and I have ascertained that the director of London region has suspended Mr. Worcester's call until the 1st August.