MILITARY APPEALS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 98, 18 January 1918, Page 7

MILITARY APPEALS

(SITTING OF THIRD WELLINGTON BOARD CASES HEARD YESTERDAY L The Third Wellington Military Board its sessions in Wellington /yesterday. Mr. M. J. Mack presided ;.(in tho absence* of Mr. D. M. Findlay), .and with him were Mr. A. O'L. ConsiWine and Mr. T. Bambeiv Captain 1\ 'Baldwin represented tho military authorities. j The - boal'd dismissed an employer's fiappoal made i'or. the exemption of Wiljliam -Gaudy,--.clerk, Masterton. Gaudy Mvas granted leave till April. !'• An •adjournment for three months [was made in the ense of, John Thorriburn, engineer, Vogeltown. The appellant was 42 years of age, and had jri wifo in,dejicato health. His personal jappeal was supplemented by his employer's appeal., , ' '

I An appeal;forf William John Rodger, manager of. the Auckland branch of 41)0 New Zealand Farmers' Bacon Com",'pany,. was' dismissed. Rodger was {given leave till April 30. Edward N. - Kehbell, sheep farmer, (Pahautanui, asked„for time and was :'grantcd leave till April. "! The New Zealand Loon and Mercantile Agency Company appealed on )behalf-of George Shand, their JS'apier •manager. .It was .stated that 'of: the ■company's . employees ' in.. New Zealand |L6O had gone to .the war, and had bad jfco be replaced by,boys, girls, and . old janen. ■ This was the first occasion on jwhich the company had asked for total jesemption for an employee.' . Moreover, they had up to the present spent about -.£15,000 ' upon, giving half-pav ,'3to employees on service. Tha. board pd.journed.the case for "three .months, ft The appeals of several slaughterman X-vere adjourned sine die,upon the proRduftioii of such proof -as-the board psually requires. [■•Edward James-Payten, aged.26, "was lithe manager of a mine that gavo prosjpects .of producing scheelite and gold. HHis employer, a woman, said that she Hrmist have Payten at the mine. ..She tiad spent a fortune upon tlie ventiico. mine -was about. 40 miles 'from Captain Baldwin 'asked the jfo'oard to adjourn the! case to .-.permit investigations-to -be mada. It appear- I fled to him 'that the mine., was not ;.bf fany use to the country at" present, eince it seemed to be unworked. "The ! toard ordered Payten to. go into camp j 311 April. ... .. | f - 'Appeals for shearers .were dealt witS | fes follow Clarence H: Snow, Alsrtinjborougti .(adjourned sine.die); Gordon 'H. Templetpn, Herbertvilk' (adjonraed •fell' April) : Reerfnald Coate (adinurn'ed for production of marriage 'certifi£ate). ' . J The following, reservists satisfied the {board that-th'ey should .not have »een Mailed up so soon as they were memfbers of . the later classes of .tho''Second (Division Daniel. Gilchrist- sanitary iplumber; Rupert H.'-Sawyer, storein'nn, •ketone; Edward Plunkett, biuldeiyK.:)jbirnie; Patrick Murphy, hjd'raullo Jorane- driver; -James AV. Darby. pam« tter. . -■ ( ...Robert J. C. Seal,-waterside,worker. ;]iad -his - appeal' allowed on t-h.6 ground ithat he-was' not a. reservist.. ' -

The case' of R. W. Jenkins, .plumber. iPetone, was ■ .adjourned for 3 months, frhe appeal was. made 011 the grounds 'of public interest and undue !'ardfehip. , The board dismissed the appeals of ifcho' followingßobert Yoint,'.:slaughjterraan,. Peione'r-James •E. Moore,;-irou iand brass moulder, Lower Hutt.

1 Mr. A. AYv Blair appeared ,in support of the appeals lodged for A. J. iWillett, Artliur Lightfowler, and Sydney Smith, boot clickers. The cases ftvere adjourned for three months. The board granted Private . J. F. (Eager' (Trentham) four months' leave .on account of bis wife's ill-health. .

'. '.Thomas Edgar-. Gray, : butter salestaan, appealed on the ground that lie \vas the sole support of his widowed Mother. He had two brothers at -ihe front. The case was adjourned for (three months. •

The board dismissed an appeal mads for Cecil ■W. Johnson, registered Petone, and ordered Johnson to go into camp on April 30. : An adjournment for three months Ws inade in the case of David Ryalls '(barman, Tramway Hotel), who ; appealed on the ground of undue hardship. ■ James de Blois, waterside worker, telaimed that, being a half-caste Maori, he was not a reservist. His case was adjourned for a month.

The case of Walter Herbert Garbutt, Vho alleged that he was an American fcitizen, was further adjourned for a Veek. ■ -

Walter B. Hoare. railway fitter, (Wellington, appealed on the ground of tadue hardship. Hoare was represented by a 1 brother, a returned solHier, who said that three other brothers were still at the front. The appellant Jcept the home together. The board adjourned the appeal for three months.