MILITARY SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 110, 26 January 1918, Page 3

MILITARY SERVICE

THIRD WELLINGTON BOARD CASES HEARD YESTERDAY The Third Wellington Military Service Board continued its sessions yesterday. Mr. M. J. Mack presided, and with him were Messrs. J- Bomber and A. O ! L. Considine. Captain P. Baldwin represented the military authorities. The Wellington Gas Company asked the board to exempt Alfred Morris Taylor (chief gas inspector). Mr. T. Neave appeared in support of the application. He said that Mr. Taylor was the engineer in charge of the distribution of the whole of the gas in and around Wellington, and was the officer responsible for the safety of users of gas in the city. Ho was a specially trained man. Tho general manager for the company said that Mr. Taylor could not be replaced. Ho was in solo charge of the governors 'ogulating the pressure of gas in the mains, and tho importance of his duties was clear from tho fact that serious accidents had occurred some years ago through trouble in tho

mams. In reply to Captain Baldwin, the witness stated that even tho presence of an expert was no absolute guarantee against such an accident. The accident in question happened after Mr. Taylor took charge. The appeal was adjourned for three months. Tho Comptroller of Customs appealed for tho exemption of Basil Warring. It was stated that Warring was head shipping clerk in "Wellington, and could not bo replaced. The board adjourned the case for three months. Tho Marine Department asked the hoard to exempt temporarily Second Lieutenant B. W. Millier, Featherston Camp. It was stated that the Marino head office was bo short-handed now that it could hardly carry on. Mmier had seen two years and three months of active service.' The board recommended three months' leave without pay. The board reserved its decision upon $he> appeal of the New Zealand and African Steamship Company for the exemption of Alfred G. Scott (head shipping clerk, Wellington). Charles Leslie Wilson (printer, Wellington), who had three brothers at tho front and was the last son left at home, had his case adjourned for three months. Walter S. B. Wilson (tram conductor, Kilbirnie) asked for temporary exemption, and was put forward to the May draft. Richard Hoare (driver, Petone) was given leave to April 3. Albert E. Lerwill, gasfitter, Lower Hutt, asked the board to grant him three months' leave to settle his affairs. He had apparently been put into camp before a question of financial assistance was decided. Ho -was given leave till April 30. The board decided to recommend that Private James Perry (honorary soft goods expert in the Munitions Department, N.Z.) he returned from England as early as possible. The board had' to hold over a number of cases that lmd been set down for hearing.