BRAWN IN THE BALLOT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3104, 7 June 1917, Page 7

BRAWN IN THE BALLOT

MORE APPEALS PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONER'S EVIDENCE The First Wellington Military gerrice Board sat in Wellington again yesterday. JThe chairman is Mr. p. G. A. Cooper, 5.11.>: and the other (members of the board are Messrs. D. Mlaren and W. Terry. Captain AValker is the military representative! Air. A. -D. Thomson, .Assistant Public Service Commissioner, attended to give evidence respecting an application which has'been before the board on several occasions for the temporary exemption of half-a-dozen officers in the service- of the Public Trust Office. Mt. Thomson was questioned as. to what assistance the Commissioner had given the Public Trustee in the matter of relieving fit men for tho war by securing temporary men. Mr. Thomson said the Coramispioners had done all they could to help the Public Trust Office, and had offered £1 or i£s per week for- temporary men. They had even given £& as a commencing salary in one case, but the highest for a purely' clerical man was .£5. The salaries ' the temporary men were getting were higher thaii the' permanent men's, and that fact was causing dissatisfaction in tb.B service, as tho permanent men had to show the higher-paid temporary men how to do tho work. Tho work of the officers of the Public Trust needed special training and knowledge, and junior officers could do the work-better than outsiders'; The employment by the temporary hands could be terminated at a. day's -notice;-but 6uch a termination was unlikely if a'man behaved well, and was competent. - ■ \ Tho decision of: the board in the! appeals was reserved.

Alfred Le Comte, ironmonger's assistant, appealed on tho ground that he was his mother's sole support. The appeal was dismissed, and three- weeks' leave ■was" allowed. .'.-.":''.

Leave till August 22 was granted L. C. Galbraith, clerk. . Ernest • Alexander C'aldow, commercial traveller, did not appear before the board, and hia appeal was struck out. His" appeal was made on- the ground of undue hardsihip. (Appellant, we wero informed last evening, is out f town and ;did notattend on account of having been .'before the Medical Board on Saturday and been given-a clearance until the end 'of August.) ■ •'William Charles Oscar Johnsen,'warehouseman, appealed on the ground of undue hards&ip, and his case • was adjourned pending a communication from the Minister. 0. S. Hurney and Harold Hook, grocers :in partnership, appealed for exemption, •-bnt their cases wore adjourned for Hur- ; 'jiey to be re-examined by the Medical ' Board. Robert Ernest Mac Donald, storemau, .sought a three mouths' adjournment, but .his appeal was dismissed. The appeal of David Walter M'Kelvey, farm labourer, was dismissed, and ;the appellant was given leave tiir August 22: James Frederick M'Kain, land and estate agent, withdrew his appeal. ' Horaco Haines M'Cullough, insurance company manager, appealed on- the grounds of publio interest aad undue ; hardship, but did not appear, and the appeal was.struck out. Peter James C. M'Kee, wool-classer, appealed, stating'there are four children dependent on him. He said he had been Rejected from camp because he had rheumatism. The case was adjourned so that appellant's employer could bo called. Ronald Arthur lock, 'shipping. clerk,' sought exemption on the ground of undue hardship, and forwarded a medical certificate in support of his appeal. Tie board dismissed his appeal, and secured him leave till September 19.' Kenneth GordonXtolman, meat works employee, Kaiwarra,. who had lodged ah appeal and forwarded a financial statement, sent a withdrawal notice, and his appeal was formally dismissed. John James Knox,, horse, driver, asked for. exemption because of the illness of ■,liis wife.. His appeal was dismissed, but leave till August. 22 was granted him. tTndue hardship was a ground urged by Kenneth Duncan JTGregor, labourer, Petone. Appellant's case was adjourned 'till the first sitting of the board after August 28. William Henry Thomas Ifacey, motor driver, appealed for family reasons, and was given leave till July 25. An adjournment till to-day was made in the case of Patrick Joseph Miley, fire bri Richard Park, salesman, withdrew an appeal which relied partly on the ground that he was a Second Division man. John Jame3 Oates,. transport baker, appealed on the ground of public interest, and was told that if his employers wished to have him exempted they must send in an apepal. The case was adjourned till June 13. • Sidney Gilbert Malin, bookseller, who had forwarded a request for exemption till the end of June, withdrew his request. - ~ ■ Anthony Carroll Nathan, soldier, appealed on the ground that he. was not a reservist, but did not appear in support of 'his case, and the appeal was dismissed.

heave till August 22 was granted Harold Thomas Mould, market gardener, Lower Hutt. • Francis- Downer Muir, master patternmaker, who appealed on the grounds of "undue hardship and public interest, was given leave till November. .Tames Perry,, military clothing factory foreman, was appealed for by his employer; on the ground of pnolic interest. It was stated that Perry was in the service of the "Wellington Woollen Company, and had enlisted tome time ago. Two of Perry's brothers had gone •fo the front (one had been killed), and another was on. home service. The appeal was not granted, but leave till August 22 was given. Burnett Fletcher Pood, freezing chamber contractor, I/vwer- Hutt, was appealed- for by the (-.ear Company. It tras stilted that it would be impossible to replace Pood.. Decision was reserved. An appeal by Arthur William Piper, bookbinder, was withdrawn. Frederick Thomas Quinlivan, clerk, who had annealed on the ground of undue hardship, also withdrew his appeal. The board will sit aagin to-day, commencing at 10 a.m. '