MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3109, 13 June 1917, Page 5

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

NUMBER OF TEMPORARY EXEMPTIONS Yesterday there was aiioLlier sitting ot the. First Wellington Military Service Board, which consists of Messrs. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., D. M'Laren, and W. I'orry, with Captain Walker ae tho military representative. Vincent Furness, freezing works baud, Petone, who appealed on the grounds of hardship and public interest, was found to bo in. tho Second Division, and was transferred accordingly. Neil Allan M'Phee, freezing-chamber hand, who appealed on the ground of undue hardship, said that lie had a mother j and a sister to support The appeal was dismissed, and leave till July 25 was i given. Charles Albert Buchanan, pig slaughterman, Frankton Junction, was appealed for by Hie New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Bacon and Meat Packing Company, the manager of which said it would take a year to school a. substitute. Men could not now bo obtained. The company was killing 90,000 pigs per year, and had four factories. The company was under contract to supply ten tons of bacon per month to tho Defence Department. The board reserved its decision sine die, and granted exemption from military service meantime, provided tho reservist remained in his present employment. Mr. M. J.« Roardon, secretary of the New Zealaild Slaughtermen's Federation, r.skod that Leonard Curry should be placed in the same position as alaughtermen whose cases were adjourned sine die. Curry was a. slaughterman who had been in camp and bad been given leave to do slaughtering -it Ngahauranga. His wife appealed because Curry was not robust, and she feared he would break down. The board took the ■ view that Curry was in the hands of the military, and , that it could -not do anything m the i An appeal had been lodged for Allan I Walter Abley, slaughterman, Waipaoa, > but it was stated that: Abley had gone to i Australia. The appeal was dismissed. | Rollo ; I*l wry, farmer, Tβ Horo, was ; piven till Jnlv 10 to enable him to dispose of or arrange his,farming business. In the reserved caso of V. E. Jacobson, coal dealer and carrier, PfltoTie, the chairman announced that it had been decided to dismiss the appeal. Cases of the following slaughtermen were adjourned sine die:—Carrol' Keuehaw (Belfast). Thomas Noonan (Loiißbnrn), Henry Jones (Potone). Edgar Gibb Pr.rker (Toiiircina), Arthur John Wilson fWanganui), Stanley Eric Hoy (Wairoa), George fiayner (Xgarnawahia), Herbert D. TCinininont (Ngaruawahia), Adolph \nderson (Wellington), Cecil William Diron (Pelone), Leslie W. Miller (Petone), Charles William Reichart (Wellington"}, and Reginald Toose (Wellington). . Appeals for William James Vincent. Springbrook, and Cunningham, Lower TTntt, were adjourned till Monday.