MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 10

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

CITY APPEALS

CASES HEARD YESTERDAY

The-Third Wellington Military Service Board dealt with a considerable number of appeals yesterday. The chairman of the board is Mr. W. H. S. Moorhouse, and the other members are Messrs. A. O'L. Consodine and M. J. Mack. Appeals by the Catholic clergy and the Public Trustee, and a discussion on the subject of a definition of "undue hardship" are reported under other headings. C. E-. Smith, a- member of the Na tional Committee of the Y.M.C.A., ap peared to seek exemption for Fredk A. Parry, Field Secretary, with th Y.M.C.A. in Egypt, and at presen vorking among the wen who are fight ng the Senussi. Appellant said tha 'arry was one of tile seven or eigh p irst Division men who werfe doinf .eld service work. The King had saic hat these men were doing better worl hail if they were actually in the fir ng line. These men, with the organisa ion of the Y.M.C.A.., were lielping ti xep thousands of men fit. The casi ims adjourned sine die, and suspensioi rom military service meantime wai ;ranted. Edmund Battersbv, master painter 48 Jackson Street, Petoiio, appealei m the ground of undue hardship. Mr Blair appeared* for him. The ques ion was gone into as to whether tin ocal master painters could assist ap >ellant in the matter of the disposal o lis business. The case was adjonrnet ill Mar-ch 16. ■The New Zealand Bacon and Meai 'acking Company asked for leave foi Tcnry Dewhir&t, a military bandsman featlierston, and it was decided to re onimend the Minister to grant leavi ill April 28 if Dewhirst agrees' to it. The Wellington it eat Export Com )any asked for leave for David Mor ran and Herbert Liddlo, two slaughter nen who had enlisted and gone int< sinjp.. It was decided to reeommeii; he Minister to grant leave till Apri !8. provided the men are agreeable. _ Claude Fellows-Thompson, auditor u lie employ of Dalgetv and Co., Auck and, appealed, and Mr. A. W. Blai ippeared in support of the appeal. Iji ;round was unduo hardship, in that hi provided lor his mother, his sister, am ■ho ' latter's .three children. Dalget; md Co. also appealed oil the groum •hat they could not spare Thompsoi ;et. In the course of'the evidence l vas said that 90 per cent, of Dalgefcyi itaff had enlisted by November, 1916 Die appeal was dismissed, and leavi ;ill April 1 was granted. The" Vacuum Oil Company appealei or the exemption of L. W. Gilbert, it; fhief clerk. Mr. Myers appeared n iupport of the appeal, and stated tha he companv had spared every man l ould. The staff had been very severelj lc.pleted, and the appellant was an ex lert who could not be replaced. Mr iilair, organiser and local auditor, o ;he company, who is oil a busines risit from Australia, said that appel ant could not be spared. He statei ;hat from ono floor in their Australiai jusiness they had lost forty out o seventy men. They had lost one liun Ired and thirty men in Australia, am ; liey had given their employees ever; fiance to go .to the war. Appellan iiimself stated that he had enhstei last year, and was still willing to g< to the war. The decision of tho board was re >erved. Herbert Clarkson White, a mariiu mgineer in the employ of the Unjoi Jompany, was granted two months eave. ' .' Mr. E. K. Kirkeaklie appeared ill in appeal tor William James Keys, noulder, care Niven and Co., Napier, mt the board said that the case was me in which it had no jurisdiction. The Department of Education aj;lealed in behalf of T. P. Cox, of the education Department, Wellington, dr. F, K. Dq Castro gavo evidence that '5 per cent, of the office staff had enisted—fifteen or sixteeii out of twentymo. No First Division men had wait>d to be balloted. Exemption till the snd of April was sought, and the board ;ranted it. . , Appeals'by W. T. Young (secretary if the Seamen's Union) for the following were adjourned sine I die: —Dayid [oseph Conwav, seaman; Patrick tlurphy, fireman; James Macken, seanan.

WOODVILLE APPEALS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Woodville, February 16. ; The Military Servioe Board sat here this morning, when George Aikinson, of Makoinako, was given leave till April 30. Tho case of E. P. Hall was adjourned until the next meeting. Charles Roberts, of Pongaroa, and Clifford Smith, of Pabiatua, had leave granted them until April 30; J. J. Sutherland, of Pabiatua, withdrew his appeal; Leonard James Bowden,. of Matamau, was given exemption till the first concentration camp, to be held in July. The appeal of Herbert Davis, of AYaipatiki, was allowed. Francis A. Liquori Hatwell, of Dannevirke, was* granted one month's exemption. Frank May, of Terelnmga, was granted exemption until May 28. Frederick. J. F. Moore, of Dannevirke, was granted leave until May 30. Peter Edward] Nikolaison, of Whctukura, withdrew bis appeal. Exemption till May 28 was granted Daniel Joseph O'Sullivan, of Takapau. John Charles Sullivan, of TJmutaroa, was granted leavo until April 30. The appeal of Edward Hossiter, Dannevirke, was dismissed. Willinin Smith, of To Papakura, was granted leave until April 30, and John Struthers, of Matamau, was granted exemption to May 28. •