MORE APPEALS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2964, 30 December 1916, Page 8

MORE APPEALS

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD YESTERDAYS SITTING Additional appeals by Reservists drawn by ballot- for service in the Forces were heard by the 'Wellington Military Service Board yesterday. Several of the men who had 1 lodged appeals failed to appear in support of them, and the appeals, therefore, wore dismissed. Tho board consisted of Mr. D. G. A.. Cooper,, S.M. (chairman), Messrs, D. M'Laren and G. Williams, Captain C. 11: Orr Walker was the military representative. Medically Unlit. llichard .Alexander Robertson, carpouter and joiner, had applied on the previous day for three months' suspension on tho ground of undue/hardship, and he had been directed to go before a Medical Board. Captain Walker now reported that Robertson had been declared medically unfit. The appeal, therefore, was allowed!

An Apprentice's Appeal, Frederick Hugh Jamieson, engineering apprentice, appealed for suspension in order_.that lie might- completo his period of apprenticeship. Mr. E. C. Levvoy, who appeared.on behalf of appellant, said! that Jamieson had. no wish to avoid service, bub the circumstances were unusual. ' The position had been explained to Captain Walker. The appeal was supported by the employers, Messrs. Cable and Company. Captain Walker said that Jamieson was completing his fifth year as an apprentice, and wished to sit for examination during the first week in April. It seemed reasonable that he should be allowed to, complete his apprenticeship, j . The appeal was dismissed, Cap Jain Walker undertaking to secure leave for appellant until April 7. A Settler. Percy G. Hunt,, settler, of Paraparaumu, appealed on the ground of undue hardship. >Hc handed a confidential letter to Captain Walker; who said that he wouldV be prepared to secure leave for appellant until the end of January. ,-■'.. This arrangement appeared to satisfy the reservist, and'the appeal was dismissed. ■ >

Permanently Unfit, j Thomas Charles Lloyd-Cox; journalist, of-Wellington,; whoso appeal had been adjourned in order that he might go.before,a medical board, was reported tn be; permanently medically unfit. A Seaman's Claim. .Undue hardship was the ground of appeal raised by William Elder Martin, seaman' and waterside .worker, Wellington. Martin stated that he had offered himself for the Motor Boat Patrol, but had been refused enlistment as a member o£ the mercantile marine. He had not been at sea for a year, but prior to that he had six or seven years' deep sea service; Ho did not think he should be sent into the Expeditionary Forces in view of the fact that the military authorities would not let him join the naval branch. Appellant,- it appeared, had no firsthand information as to the reason why his offer to join the Motor Boat Patrol had not been accepted. He had hoard that seamen were not allowed to. join, since they were required in New Zealand.

The Chairman: : "You' have no other ground of appeal?" .•!.,: ',• ..'• Appellant: "I want to lie put in the placo where I would be most useful. I don't think I am fit for service in the lai?i> forces." The' Chairman: "The Medical . Board will find that out. Your appeal is not allowed." In Camera. The appeal of Harry Warner, carpenter, Wellington,■••on the ground of undue hardship, was heard in camera. The appellant based, his claim for exemption on domestic circumstances. Decision was reserved until the following morning. . Appeal withdrawn. An appeal made by William John Keanc, bar-tender, JVclKngton, on the ground of iiudue hardship, had been withdrawn, and was formally dismissed.! The employer, Mr. S: Gilmer, had also appealed. , No Appearance. James Littleboy, machinist and sawyer, Newtown, and Henry Leonard KingOn, horse-trainer, Trentham, had each sent in a form of appeal, with all the legal grounds, undeleted. Neither man appeared to support any of his grounds of appeal. ■ ■ <. Both appeals were disallowed. 1 Walter"-Clifford•• Smith, bootmaker, Wellington, had lodged an appeal, but did not appear in support of it. William John Bowdcn, jockey, Otaki, also appealed.: : ; He mentioned in a. letter that, he had enlisted twice andhad been rejected. Bowdcn did not appear. • ' : Both these appeals'were dismissed. The Board will sit again at 10 a.m. to-day.