MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3114, 19 June 1917, Page 7

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

A MIXED LIST

'APPEALS HEARD IN THE CITY

•■ teS «?!" y [ss st * n M W«"* Service Jaoaru Eat in Wellington yesterdav Tim tu A ° f MCS H A- Cooper w-n' Lar(,n, and W. -l?errv Thi taUjfary representative is Captain. ■ .An appeal,™ made for John iu^-i-ison decision smo die, and era-. T lesel Y ccl from service - •' to , t - sus P c ' m ™ iS "5 ieCure 4 lectin August 22 ior Dusmcst, reasons! fa i)anr el Bcgdrty, labourer, proved that 'vSf 01,00 V i iC L Or Ka -'° Hu &°' Fi'lesraan, ■"nose appeal had Leon adjourned horn March la, reappeared. Ho said ho was .■/no only f Pn at slomo wHU hjs ( ' m, °r° Of hl ' S broth,,rß Wl,s killed ,on Galhpph and anofher was in camp. stayed hoine by arrangemont with (he I ■brothers who had gone. Tho appeal w.ia .dismissed, and Inivo tilt July 21 was granted. Edward Grey M'Carthv, driver, whoso appwl was supported by h ' B mot ' ,er u,ll ' father Itiie latter h blind) was given ■Iwvo till July 2*. . ■Jlareiis .Alfred Tvcry driver, had his appeal dismissed, hid. leav«.tiU j mio .17 was ?ranl«d him. Alexander Keid, a phimbcr's apprentice, ■■??* "PPeal.ed for by his employer, who .•wished Held exomptod lo assist in tl'c •completion . worlr on the new w lico Ihß aIS 5; , The I ,0 ?* 1 now dismissed the appeal, and granted no further leave . An employer's appeal had been lodged ,fw Tom Blythn Mliott, drivor, but i ' 7Z n Tm f l L ihat E ! li,,t,; was now in camp, and thn sppeal was withdrawn An appeal Ly John Alfred lluslhs •butchers Bse , ? fcint, wns adjourned pcndl ....ing tho result of negotiations , for!'fiuair- . ; cial assistance. • Appeals for the WlowLdk were withdrawn aD d formally "dismissed:-James , William Docker, railway oleancr,, TaiW; Ernest -Percy fen-lcr, Disiriot Valuer,,MastertoTi fpasswl , fit for homo' service); Frart Taito Lippifl. Morcinim, Wellington; Horace Hainra M'CuiloiiKh, manager (boarded ' "'unfit"); William .lames Vinceni, slanghtornian, Jt. Andrews, Canterbury (passed fit. for Jome-service); John Joseph Crowley, iWanganui. ' ■ J .Tabes. Cunninghajii, slaiitrhlorinnii, lower Butt was appealed for by Mr. M- .1. Keardnn; union Thn board reserved its d<y.ir,io)i sino din, ,-iiid , granted exemption meantime. Ihe board, will resume at 10 o'elwk T-nin morning. ■ A MINING CLAIM ■ BOAR.U AND - WARDEN 'DISAGREE. ■ \ El Telegraph-Press Association. ■■'■ '.. ' .;.. Hokitika, June 18. i Aba-iathng of the Military Appeal ?o«d tiddly the chairmaii (Mr. Erano, b.JL), referred fo the published remarks of Warden Hutchison,.'who took.'racep-

tion to a statement of Mr. Evans's at tbo t previous sitting, when ho said there was ■OHO trouble-in getting twelve months' protection for-a daim at Kanicri to enable'' U maa. to go to the front. ■■ Mr. Hutchison had since declined to allow more.than sir months. Mr. Evane expressed absolute astonishment that ther.e was a warden in thj district who, under the circwnetaiicer,, would not grant such an an-plication-for the full term, and he was 20W2 to we that protection was obtained. Jfc was absurd to grant onlj sii'monthe to » man going fo'tho front. The appeal "was adjourned until next sitting.