BUTTER MAKER EXEMPTED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3030, 17 March 1917, Page 2

BUTTER MAKER EXEMPTED

By A^ioistion,

'Hamilton, March 16.

At thf'Military Appeal Boartl to-day the '■Wftikalo Co-operative Dairying. Co.nnmu.y applied for exemption for B.

D. Smith. Mr. MacDiarmid appeared for the company and stated that his clients had in all possible ways endeavoured to assist' recruiting, and had a standinc offer to insuro any married reservist going to the front for -£SQO. The company was tho second largest of its kind in New Zealand and turned out IGOO tons of butter annually, of a value of £398,606. The company had lost 11.men, and of its 37 employees they had only appealed for the present man, who was tho foreman butter-maker at the Frankton factory, the output of which'was 1100 tons, /and which employed 22 hands. He- was .export in-all-branches of: tho business, and his retention was essential to tho company. The board decided to recommend that Smith, who imp Vo , luntaril V enlisted in February. IJI6, should be granted indefinite leave without pay. The chairman pointed out that Smith was really acting in the public interest in staving his present position. UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR EXEMPTED By Telegraph—Press Association. . Dunedin, jlarch 16. tho Military Service Board to-day exempted Robert Jack, Professor of 1 hysics .at Otago University. It was stated that every effort had been made to provide a substitute. Additional exemption was granted to Messrs. Stevenson and Cook,' on behalf of some employees engaged on essential work on transports in dock.