"BEYOND THE SEAS"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 70, 15 December 1917, Page 11

"BEYOND THE SEAS"

WHAT CONSTITUTES SERVICE.

A point of interpretation came before the Third Wellington Military Service Board yesterday. Peter Gray, taxi-driver, Trentham (Mr. Luckie) had been a private in the Scots Guards from 1904 to 1906, and was drafted to the Reserve on account of rheumatic fever.- He was ordered to report at the outbreak of war,' and went into camp with other British reservists, but •developed illness before the transports finally loft New Zealand, but he was at sea for two days. Subsequently he received a discharge from the Imperial authorities. Mr. Luckie suggested that in these circumstances the appellant was not liable. Captain Baldwin said the man had been discharged from the Imperial Forces in 1014, and had become a member of the New Zealand Iteserve under the Military Service Act. Mr. Luckie • said the appellant had been aboard due of the first transports when it put Out from Wellington, and returned 48 hours later. Technically ho hud fp"u !""rvic<\ and so was not r. reservist in New Zealand. Captain Baldwin replied that the Act provided that men who had seen service "beyond the seas" were not members of*the Reserve. "Beyond the seas" did not mean "on the seas." Mr. Luckie said a man who' had gone three miles out to sea had passed beyond the jurisdiction of New Zealand, and so had been beyond the seas. The chairman said the hoard would consider the question whether or not Gray was a New Zealand reservist.