MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 2, 27 September 1917, Page 5

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

YESTERDAY'S CASES.: _ The Third Wellington Military Service Board resumed its sessions in the City yesterday. Mr. H. J. Bcswick presided, and with him were Messrs. M. J. Mack and A. O'L. Considine. Captain P. Baldwin was tho military representative. The cases of Richard F. Ward, clerk in the Public Trust Office, and James J. Sparkcs, police constable at Christchurch, were withdrawn. An appeal by Kenneth H. Smyth, Custons officer, Goldies Brae, was dismissed. / The following cases were adjourned for a month:—John K. Salvation 'Army officer; William'!. Hildreth, Sulfation Army officer. A rehearing was refused .in the case bf Private Leslie Stills, Thirtieth Beinforcements, Featherston. The case of Private John A. Hughes, (Thirty-first Reinforcements, Trentham, was adjourned till October 2. Tho cases'of Stanley Headifer, driver, Tasman Street, Wellington, and Robert D. Benge, farm labourer, Hutt, were dismissed; leave being granted till October 12. The following cases were adjourned indefinitely :—Chas. J. Lonihan, clerk, Wellington; George E. Downes, railway porter, Wellington; Stephen Salter, electrician, Miiamar; Arthur J. Hosey, tinsmith, Wellington; W. A. Clark, electrician, Maheno; A. E. Kite, Salvation Army. The following cases wore dismissed:— Thomas J. Howard, railway employee, Palmer6ton North; George Turkington, railway clerk, Rcseneath (leave till January 18); Thomas G. Caldwell, engineer, Petone; David Ronnie, jun., dairy farmer, Mungarot; (leave till November 14); .Tames Devina (for whom Mr. Willis appeared), publisher "Now Zealand Times" (leave till November 14); Andrew Vella, farmer, 'i'itahi Bay (leave till December 12). The appeal of Henry Lenhart, hairSresser and tobacconist, 112 Willie Street, Wellington, was adjourned for inquiries to be made by the Defence Department. Tivo weeks'leave was recommended in the cases of James Dunn, plumber's assistant, Eoseneath, and A. A. Were, soldier, Featherston, and one month's leave in the caee of C- N. Sharman, soldier, Featherston. The case of J. O. Abbott, Ajiglican minister, was adjourned for a month, ' Jhe board adjourned until to-day.. '