MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3000, 10 February 1917, Page 10

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

CITY APPEALS

CASES HEARD YESTERDAY

The third Wellington Military Service Board sat yesterday. Mr. W. H. S. Moorhouse presided) and the other members ivoro Messrs. A. O'L. Considine and M. J. Mack. James A. Flynn, foreman litho ; grapher, produced a certificate to show that he was over military age. His appeal was allowed. Leave was granted Herbert George Hayward, motor mechanic, Jjowar Hutt, till February 21. He stated that he iiad served in the South African War. Herbert Hobbs, farmer, Nai Nai, Lower Hutt, who said he could get 110 one to carry on his farm, was granted leave till' March 3. Charles A. Goddard, labourer, did not. appear, and his appeal was dismissed. . Mr. J. S. Barton appeared in support of an appeal lodged on behalf of Walter James Keys, butcher, Upper Hutt. Keys's father said that if his son were taken the butchery business would have to be" closed, and the district would be deprived of an important source of food supply. One son-was already in camp, and another had benn declared unfit. Leave till -March 3 was : guaranteed the appellant; The board adjourned till May 27 the case of Lindsay Chalmers Galbraith, who appealed on the ground of undue hardship. He said lie was the only surviving son of his family. A brother had been killed in France." His parents were dead, he had.lived with his stopmother, and ho had three single sisters. The case of Charles F. Hills, joiner, Berhampore, was adjourned. Harry Watson Ferrar, an assistant accountant in the employ of the Wellington Meat Export Co., appealed on the ground of undue hardship. He said he had enlisted twice and been rejedtcd, and as a. consequence his brother had gone to the war. When his brother went appellant took over the. obligation of supporting his parents, who lived in England. Also, he parried. The appeal was adjourned till Tuesday to see what the appellant's employers would do toward supplementing the pay the military would give him. Joseph Alfred. Smyth, a clerk in thePost and Telegraph Department, who acts also as secretary to the Public Service Board of iAppeal, claimed,, oh the ground of undue hardship, exemption until men. with less responsibilities than himself had been sent to camp. He married in .April. 1916, prior to the passing of the Military Service Act, and in the first placo desired to oxplain his reasons for marrying notwithstanding tho probability of his being required for military purposes. His only eligible brother joined the Expeditionary Force early in ] 915. His wifo. had three brothers on active service, and a fourth one had recently enlisted who previously was -under agofor military service. Appellant contributed to tho support of his parents and four sisters, and looked forward to contributing more as his circumstances improved. Three sisters ranged in ages from 7 to 12, while tho fourth, who was required to assist his father and mother, neither of whom was in proper health, was 17. Appellant and his wifo had living with tliera tho wife of his brother, now on active sorvice, and liis .wife's hrothor, aged 14. He had financial obligations in connection with his residence. Decision was reserved. In the caseof Samuel Riddlcr, farmer. Lower Hutt, appellant was guaranteed leave till April -1. - Frederick G. S.King, photographer. 49: Adelaide Road, who.-.sai&.bo ..hail been found unfit,on several occasions,' and had several peoplq' dependent oil him, annealed on tho ground of hardship. The appeal was dismissed, and King was informed that if,lie. was not, fife ho would not bo retained in camp.--An appeal lodged by the Piiblio Tmstco for Norman M. Chcsney, a correspondence clerk, was adjourned till next week. Tho Commissioner of Stamps anpealed for tho.cxemption of Harold Eunor, Stamp Department, ,Auckland. .Leavo till April'2B-was' granted. "Tho lioard will resume at 10 a.m. today. ; •: 'CASE OF MEDICAL STUDENTS;By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, February 9. At a sitting of the Military Service Board to-day, reference was made to appeals on behalf of several medical students. The chairman said the board had referred tho matter to the Government, and > a Teply t had been received that the Government considered-fourth and fifth-'J-ear students should be empted, in order to enable them;to complete their course. It was not desired that any special action bo taken in tho case of first, second, and third-year students. Dr. Ferguson, on behalf of the faculty, said he had received a communication from Dr. Valintine 6aying third, fourth, and fifth-year students would be exempted. ' . . -The chairman replied that the board' nrust act on the communication from tho Government. Dr. Valintino'mighthave misunderstood the position. Certain appeals were therefore allowed and others dismissed.