MILITARY APPEALS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 103, 24 January 1918, Page 7

MILITARY APPEALS

THIRD WELLINGTON BOARD

(CASES HEARD YESTERDAY

Tho Third Wellington Military Service Board yesterday continued its sessions iu Wellington. Mr. j.\l. J. Mack ■presided, and with him wore Messrs. li'. Baniber ' and A. O'L. Considino. lOaptaiu Baldwiu represented tho ruili■iary authorities. The , board adjourned sine die tho .teases of Robort iSlair (national general Secretary of the I'.M.C.A.) and Thos. jR. Keimer (field secretary, Y.M.C.A., .[Wellington). , An employer's appeal for the exemption of Arthur Marryatt (cashier in a jlife insurance ofh'ce)-was adjourned sino fdie. . . ■

' Adjournments sine dio were also grantJed'in the cases of Percy John M'Tag\gart' (assistant lighthouoe-keeper, Tβ jAraroa, Gisborno); John Fisher Llewellyn (third officer, Government steamer JHinemoa). i The Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals appealed for the- , exemption of kErie C. Trewick (attendant), George 0. \Smith (storekeepur),Thomas Stuart (attendant), William Olson, (attendant), William" Marshall (attendant), John /Nairn (farm overseer), Aiihur J. Dris*coll (attendant), J'. D. O. Miiir (farm fmanager), Honry E. Bryant (attendant), C. E. A. Matthews (attendant), fG. F. Gibb (attendant), E. Brighton ? (attendant), H. Glanville (head attendant), J. P. Short (attendant), R. J. jtPearce (assistant engineer); The board ;«djourncd all the casea sine die. ' . i The Director of Education appealed foi Eilliam Lawrence Dunn (clerk, Weligton). Dunn had h?.d twelve years' rvico, and had to, do wovk that no i&nexperienced man could- possibly, do. <The Department, it was stated, could wot replace him. He had four brothers jtout of five at. the front.. The. board teranted an adjournment' sino die:, f The Director of Education also. apipealed for tho exerantioi; of Hugh ■Parker Smith (Native school teacher, fHawke's Bay), and Leonard Hcdley '.'Smith . (Native • school- teacher, Auckland). .The reservists appealed for were ■Jiot brothers. They were "both.members' ftof the Second Division. 1. MK.Caughley, Assistant Director of .•Education, stated that special qnaliiiications were required, in Native leachfers, and also in their wives. He deJBcribed the nature of. their, work. Tho scaspg were adjourned sino die. .-• The■ Commissioner of Stamps asked |the board to exempt Charles ft. Keeblo .(assistant land registrar, Auckland), land D. W. O'Neill (clerk in the Stamp ■Office at Wellington). Tho Commissioner said that Keehle could- not- be (replaced, and that it would be excefid'ingly difficult to replace! O'Neill. Keeble's case was adjourned sine die. j 'O'Neill's was adjourned till May to give Hfie Department an opportunity'of find--sng a substitute. ... Exemption sine die was granted Arthur Donovan (assistant record clerk, iWellington), George W. _ Milne'' (telephone exchange ■ton), Hamilton Patten (mechanician, Christchurch), Norman Douglas Fraser (telephone exohange- mechanician, Wellington), and Harry Heatley-(splicer jof. telephone wires, Christchurch), for Iwhom the Post and Telegraph 'Department appealed. The board adjourned sine die the appeals made for Thomas Henry Mulvihill (wireless operator, Radio, • Awa'uni),. Charles P. Greenfield (cable operator, Wellington), Eric H. lies (wireless telegraphist, .Wellington), Charles Oswald Eyre, and Walter H. S. iLewie (examining officers, Auckland). Duncan M'Murtrie, telephone operator, had his appeal allowed. • He was only nineteen-years of.age, and therefore n6t a reservist. Two Hindoos were exempted. ■ ■■ In the case of William James Frost, clothing examiner, a certificate showing that he was employed by thn Defence Department was produced. Frost did not himself attend. He was granted exemption.' Ernest Henry Healey (refrigerating engineer, Wellington), claimed to bo supporting a wife and children; The hoard ordered him to enter camp in 'April unless he produced proof /that his statements were correct. . - Exemption on the usual terms was granted a number of policemen, for whom the Commissioner of Police appealed. '.-..■