MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3136, 14 July 1917, Page 13

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

, YESTERDAY'S APPEALS. The Third Wellington Military Service Board sat in. 'Wellington yesterday. : stv. JI. J. Beswick -presided, and with him were Mr. A. O'L. Considine and Mr. Sf. .T. ACack. Captain P. Baldwin .appeared as military representative. Jlr. :W. T. Younpr,: secretary of tho Seamen's Federation, applied for the exemption of a number of seamen, marine engineers, and officers. The board granted adjournment-sine die in all.cases in which appellants proved their claim to be considered bona fide 6eamen, etc. It appeared that' .T. H. L. Howard, a member ef tho Twenty-ninth Reinforcements, had appealed within the time limit, but that liig appeal had not been forwarded to the board. Howard yesterday urged that his gointf into carorj was a source of undue hardship. Ho had been a.eeanuin before he went into camp. The board adjourned his case sine die on conditions similar to those imposed in the ease of the other seamen whose appeals had been dealt with in the inornin?. The appeal of Jno.. ■ Bray, Hack-, smith, Kilbiriiie, was adjourned for a week. An adjournment was also mado in tho case of J. B. Morris, Vivian Street, who applied for financial assistance. Peter Oswald, farm hand, .Tohnsonville, failed to appear, and his appeal was struck out.

The "employer's appeal" of .Edward Thomas Wanie for his son, William Warne, a driver, now in camp with the Twenty-se,ventli Eeirforcemcnts, was dismissed.

Mrs. Sowell applied for a rehearing of the case of Alfred Wills, miner, of Aterrijigs, who was in partnership with her late liueband. She said that Wills was in camp, and she a-sked that he bo allowed leave in order to wind up tho estate. Tho board declined to accede to her request. Duncan Eraser, of Bulls, proved that ho was over the prescribed maximum ase for service. Appellant served two years in the South African War. and is entitled to retain his rank of lieutenant and wear the King's uniform.