MILITARY SERVICE BOARDS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15868, 5 April 1917, Page 4

MILITARY SERVICE BOARDS.

CANTERBURY STO. 2. CFIH LSTC HURCH SITTINGS. The Second Canterbury -Military Service Hoard sat yesterday. 1 resent. Messrs H. W. Bishop M. G. Hieh. F. T. Eldridge. and Major Ores.-,on. APPEAL DISMISSED. George Bennett Cumining. warehouseman, who had previously enlisted. but. had been rejected and had subsequently married, had hi.-; appeal dismissed, as he liad been ro-cxamined and classed as C-■ He will there lore be held for home service. CHATHAM ISLAM) CASE. In the appeal of Seton Henderson, sheepfarmer. Chatham Islands, y letter was received from the Efficiency Commissioner stating that there were *o lew European males loft- on the inlands that it was a question whether it would Ijo desirable to further deplete the population I'or military purposes. All the Maoris were engaged in fishing, and :>* forty Europeans had left to go to the war. only some half-dozen single men were left on the islands. The appeal was adjourned tine die. on the understanding that appellant would be called up without further nouk".' before the Second Division was culled on. AI'PKAI, ADJOURNED. S;.-oit- 15r05.. Ltd.. appealed on behalf of f'err-y Handall Scott, engineer in chat-go ol die erection and repairing of freezing an<! woollen machinery, on tile ground that he would be hard to replace on ju-eoiint of the shortage ol engineer-. This case had been reform) to the Efficiency Commissioner, bur. 'through some misunderstanding no report had been receivc.'l. so -that a further adjournment was neces-ary to Saturday. April ] Ith. APPEAL TKAXSKKRHED. The appeal of Edmund Miles, ship's carpenter, was referred to the Wellington Board for consideration. EXTENSION'S C R ANTED.

W. I'". Sime« appeared on behalf of .Ino. William Simes. to ask i'or an extension of a month lioni March 31st. Ho stated that lis brother was travelling from Invorcargill that day. Since lie had been drawn in the ballot ho had boon workiinr sixteen hours a day. disposing of an indented stock of hardware. Ho would like a low extra weeks to permit of the complete winding-up of the business. Me was the only man in New Zealand who could fulfil tho contracts enteral into by his employer. Leave till May l.«t was granted. On domestic grounds, Francis Alrxander Scout appealed for leave till May Ist, which was granted. civil- .s!•:;«'vAXT'S CASE (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.} WELLINGTON, April 4. Before the Military Service Board today the Commissioner of Taxes appealed on behalf of a senior officer, one of six whose soi-viccs were essentia] for traininjE; juniors and the supervision of their work. Out of a staff of 82. it was stated. 12 had gone on activc service, and of the remainder .'3O were untrained cadets and girls. Five of the six senior men left were engaged in assessment work, and one in book-keeping. So great had been the pressure of their duties lhat they had been working overtime sincc last -July. The ease was adjourned sine die. THEOLOGICAL STUDENT'S APPEAL. (PRKSS ASSOCIATION - TELEGRAM.) DUXEDIN. April 4. At the Military Service Board today Father Coffey appealed on behalf of Edwin Arthur Anderson, a theological student. Appellant said that- Anderson was in liis second year. There were fifteen or sixteen fully ordainc-d priests absent from the Dominion as chaplains, and when they returned there would still be a shortTbc Board, in. with previous decisions, dismissed the appeal, with a. recommendation, that Anderson bo put in a non-combatant branch of service. PA]IT PLAYED BY CATHOLICS. (PRKSS ASSOCIATION" TEI.EGUAM.) AY ELLINGTON, April 4. When two appeals for exemption of Catholic priests wore before the Military Service Board, Mr Considine. a member of the Board, said that representations had been made to iiim that Catholics bad not gone to the front n their proper quota. T* : ' understood that Mi- O'TjCurv. counsel for Archbishop O'vShea. had said that 11.000 Catholics bad gone. Mr O'Leary said his statement wa.s ba«cd on representations to him that I I Catholic chaplains* had rrone. and one went with every ! thousand Catholics. Mr Considine pointed out, that that would mean that i the Catholics had sent morn than their quota. He added that, of the Cntbn'ics who had i:one to the front from No l .-.- Zealand, the death* w«r,-> 17 per cent., and of others It per cent. EX-SOLDIEIFS ( ASF.. (srxciAi. To "ttte ruF.f*."i DI'NMCIN. April 1. Before the Military Appeal Hoard, Colin Mntiiioson. head shepherd. "\Yaiknua.it i. appealed under the undue hardship clause. Appellant said that he had serve in the Boer war and hail been (iis charged as unfit, and given a pens':..', by the Imperial authorities. lie h:: I an injured ~ide. U.c bad enlisted thresh times since the outbreak of the present war. but bad boon turned down. Il » had r.ow brcn passed '-fit."' The chairman : If would seem tret this mau bad done his duty to the Em• pire, though technically he i*. not exempt in respect to tho present war. In reply to the chairman. Captain Free said that be v.-as prepared to leave the matter in the hands of the Board so far as the aopeal oii the grounds of hardship was concerned. When a man bad served his country, been found unfit after three fioonrate examinations and given a pension, it was for no lightreason. The chairman said they wore of the. noinion that, havir.ir served bis country in the way had done, and 'n being di«char's-ed after !>eir." examined constantly, and then granted a pension and sent to N r, w Zealand 'in account of hi« health, his beinc called up now would be an undue hardship. Apnejlant was in all rcspe'-rs. exe"'>t tochnically. a returned The appeal would be adiourned sin" die. in order io keep appellant out of the ballot.