RESERVISTS' APPEALS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 130, 19 February 1918, Page 5

RESERVISTS' APPEALS

CASES HEARD YESTERDAY

The Third Wellington Military Service Board sat yesterday. Mr. D. M. Findlay presided, and had with him Mr. A. O'L. Coniidine and Mr. M. J. Mack. Captain P. Baldwin was the military representative. , Exemption sine die was granted to the following marine officers and engineers, on the appeal of the U.S.S. Company ;.- James Eankine, master; James Baldwin, master; John Maclean, master; Arthur Charles Showman, master; Joseph Lyall Brisco, first officer; Robert Henry Stewart, first officer; Victor Gordon Webb, first officer; Selwyn Athol Chatfield, first officer; Wm. Henry Harrison, second officer; Kenneth Gordon Don, third officer; Eobert Michael Scott, third officer; William Harms, marine officer; belwyn Frank Horn, marine superintendent; Frank M'Conville, marine engineer; Joseph Cable, marine engineer. leave until Juno was granted to William George Wilkinson, a member oi the Wellington Fire Bripule, Superintendent Tait said that the brigade could not spare any more of its experienced men. Exemption sino die was grnpted Duncan M'Gillivray, tramway traffic manager, who was represented oy Mr. i. Oanea (City Solicitor). The appeal had been made by the Tramways, Department on the ground that M'Gillivray was an export who conld not bo replaced, and whose services were essential to the successful operation of the city tramways. G. H. J. Aitken aad E. 0. Hooker, prison warders, were granted exemption sine die, on the application of the Inspector, of Prisons. , ,' . The Gear Meat Company (Mr. Tripe) i appealed on behalf of Wilfred H. Spalton, butcher and shopman. It was slated that the company had already parted with many of its trained men, and could not replace Spalton. The board adjourned the enso for four months. ShoTt periods of leave wcto granted in the cases of John 0. Coope, refrigerating engineer in the employ of the Wellington Meat Export Company; S. G. Woon, officer in charge of Dalgety and Co.'s merchnndiso department, Wanganui: Norman Wilton, slaughterman, Neil M"Lauehlnn, steward; L. H. Boecker, tham conductor, Newtown; A. 0. Shaw, clerk, Wellington; N. V. Mills, merchant tailor, Petone; D. L. Shierin, driver, Kelburn.

Exemption sine dio was granted to the following stewards, cooks, butchers, and lanndrymen.'on the appeal of the Cooks and Stewards' Union, most of them being at oresent on transports:—Hubert Vivian Ingram, Herbert Carpenter, •Tames Frederick Hindry, Percy Boddy, Henry Skaine, Harry Hockbaum, George Edward Stoneham, Samuel Stump, Cecil William Sutton, A. Carbine,' Harry Freeman, Frederick Arthur Biddle. Fredorick Thomas Teague, H. C. Madderu, Perry Horace Huggins, "Robert Hector Peak. John I Stuart M'Kcclinie, Archibald Knowles. William Forsyth. Archibald Telfer, Joseph Kamsay, Bobert Edward Hayden, Frederick Patience, Percy Hubert Hayward. Charles Humphreys, E. ft. Gftwiev, Albert WaflhorneV Jame3 -Harrison, IJJrnest Nicholson Krohn, Stanley L. Bennett. John Joseph Woods, Walter William Mutton.

A mother's appeal was heard in the ease- of' William Charles Cook, marineengineer. Mrs. Cook stated that her son was just twenty years of ape. and not long out of his apprenticeship. Two sons were serving, a son-in-law had been killed/ in- action, and a' third eon had heen rejected on medicnl grounds. The board granted leave for two months, Cook to take work as a marine engineer in the meantime.

Suspension, sine din was granted to Henry E. Harvey, butter factory manager, Ohutu. The appeal was made bv tho employers, on the ground that Harvey was an expert, who could not bo replaced. l !

A J. Lacey. painter. Petone, J. ,T. MCormack, labourer, Wellington: William Tfenrv Pollock, secretary. WelUnjr. ton;JTarold Stanford, builder,'Lvall Bay; Alfred John laonv. -painter, Petone; Vf\] Jml Owen, stonemason, Lvall Bay Thomas Henrv Morris, wharf labourer, IVellinrtoD. who had been drawn in Class A. produced proof that thev belonged to Mor classes, and their appeals were allowed.

Private Samuel .TMmnnd Salter Featherstnn Details, appealed on pronnds of religions objection. Tie said be was a member of the Plymouth Brethren sect, nnd had t-elinions objeeH o ns to takiuj any part in the war. He bad gone Jironsh bis tminin? in enmp in order to see if he was unfit. H> had reserved bis mht to raisn (be reli.«ini] R objections in the r'vent of l,j s } w \ vv fonml ht He bad tbnu.i.f nf in,<lp r takinjr ambulanr" wor-. W i„fl decided not to do so. iho -bonrd dismissed the appeal promptly.

■Prirnfo A. D. Williams. 01 Onmp. r,.,. ™>ale'l on the pronurl of ocenpntion. ' Ifr Kenrdoil, wcrotnry of t.ho Sl.iuplitermep's nniou. sold Williams was an cxwrienced He had gono "into the 01 On.mp, lui t was not becomim? fit for servico, owinr- to liael less. Wi'linmshnd appealed in the first instance, hut nwinp to a misun , (lPrst'nTidi'"r the anpoal lmd not 1) P »n beard The board granted exemption Rino die. Wfzxrorald Clnrk, restnnrnut nrcs.rietor Wellington, was .grnntal exemnt'ion' on mound of colour. Kc was a West Indian native from Burbadocs. i n p , m . l ;' 6 i rers ' apppnl ITns m *te "n helwlf of .Sydney Jacobs, clerk in the emr,loyment of Messrs. D. Nnthnn and Co. Air. Skerrett, who nppeared for the company; said the appeal was not a personal one. Jacobs was fit and willing to serve, but his employers wished to urce that ho was an essential worker. Jacobs was the mnna?er of the firm's Gl.iso department, and the total output of Gliwn bad lieen rnmmandeered by the Imperial Government. Messrs. Natlmn and Co. bad sent .12 men into camp out of a staff of 93, and had paid half wages in all cases.

Jacobs, in cvidencp, said ]i B took no part in the manufacture of Glaxo. He superintended supplies for- the factories. Production would continue unchecked if lie went away, hut nn inexperienced man would find if difficult to.handle, the nrohlems of finance, transport, and supply. The chairman said the hoard was influenced in its decision by the value of fllnxo to the Imperial authorities. Jacobs's case would ho adjourned sine ,die. on condition Hint no appeal wag wiado for another man in the same department who had been called up.