A RESERVIST AND HIS RACEHORSES
MILITARY BOARD'S FIRM ATTITUDE. By tfelezraph-Prfsa Association. CHristohurch, March 16. Before tlio Military Service Board today, in tho appeal of Henry Bartrara Hubbard, farmer, Upper Riccartou the chairman said the appellant had .been called under section 35, and had his appeal adjourned for three months. Since then ho had .been drawn in the ballot. , , Captain Pilkingtoit said tho board had decided to disallow the appeal at a, provious hearing, but had- granted appellant three months' leave. •■ ■ Tho chairman differed. The appeal.' ho said, had simplg-'been adjourned. Leonard'- Bertram Hubbard,. appeP lant's father, said he took" tip; a farm sixteen vears ago. It comprised 13*5 acres. 'He was holding an auction sale of his trotting- horses. . f ■To Captain Pilkington: His sons work in training horses "did not interfore wfth their farm work atj all.-.. He was prepared to prove that they forked from 6 a.m. till 8 p.m. Occasionally they' would take a horse out and ride hini for an hour on the track. - ■Captain Pilkineton: "Then training docs interfere with their farm work t Witness said his sons woTked anything from 10 to 13 hours a day. ■ Appellanf Bftid he had : slaved-on the farm for sixteen .years. ' The chairman: Do you mean to say that it only takes an hour to tram trotters? I have trained gallopers and trotters, and I. know it takes mora than an hour a day. In the course of further evidence witness said his other son had been arrested when he was staking peas, and sent to camp. The chairman said the board did not consider thero was anything criminal or anything wrong in running trotters, hut they had. to cdnsider whether in times of national, necessity like this men engaged in this class of work should bo exempted from service. Walter Simes, auctioneer, said ho had received instructions from the Hubbards to hold ft clearing sale o£ their, horses. , ... ...... ■ ■ "The'chairman said the hoard had disposed, of the trotting aspect of the case in-giving a previous 1 '- decision. The farm appeared'to.he well worked, and the trotters were being .disposed of. Appellant would, howevor, have to keep away from trotting and racing meetings The' board ,had. originally decided to send ono son into camp,and allow the other to remain. Circumstances had arisen which had led to one son being sent into camp in place of the other. Tho appeal under section 35 would he allowed; and the ballot appeal adjourned sino die, provided the trotting hqrses/were disposed of, and appellant refrained from wasting his time attending trotting and racing meetings, and that; arrangements were made for securing labour to work the farm when the' S~cc6nd Division' were called up. : /Appellant's father: wanted to know whether his son would ho allowed to attend the Easter races', but the chairman replied that he must not waste his time at racing-meetings. - '[
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3030, 17 March 1917, Page 10
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478A RESERVIST AND HIS RACEHORSES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3030, 17 March 1917, Page 10
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