MILITARY SERVICE APPEALS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 142, 5 March 1918, Page 6

MILITARY SERVICE APPEALS

YESTERDAY'S CASES

NUMBER OF ADJOURNMENTS

Tho First Military Service Board sat in Wellington yesterday. Mr. D, G. A. Cooper presided, and iritli him were Messrs. D. M'Ltiren and Guy C. Williams.

' Herbert Rand Firth, marine ongineer, was appealed for by his employer, and his case was adjourned sine die.

The cases of the following seamen were adjourned sine die: —Harry Lyons, Ronald Mitchell, and William Charles. An appeal was made for George Donnolly, wireless telegraphist, and the board adjourned the. case sine dio. John Murray, sheep and dairy farmer made an appeal on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship. Appellant hnd a farm of 550 acres on which he kept sheep and minted fortyfour cows. He supplied milk to people m Pctono. There was a shortage of milk in the district. The case was adjourned sine die. James Henry M'Kay, telegraphist, appealed on the ground of undue hardship. Decision was postponed pending reference of a certain aspect of the case to another body. . Tho National Hat Mills appealed for the exemption of James Joseph Fox and Stanley Midgley, two men said to be essential to the conduct of the business, which included the making of hats for the military. Decision was reserved sine die. Vivian Dudding, a polico constable, was appealed.for by the Polico Commissioner, and decision was reserved sine die. ~,'., The Gear Company appealed for L. A. V. Reesby, who was said to he the only expert pelt classer left in the firm. The reservist, also, appealed, on the ground that he had a widowed mother to support. The case was adjourned sine die. > John Robert Lawle>, for whom tho Gear Company appealed, had his ease dismissed. Leave till July 24 was granted. ' John L. Helgersen, of the 38th Machine Gun Section, ,was appealed for on the ground that his mother, who was almost blind, had no other relative and no other means of support. The chairman, said that the board would recommend an indefinite adjournment of the case.

B. M. Harney and R. A. J. Newman, Taibape, shearers, were appealed for by the secretary of the Shearers' Union, but the cases were dismissed. Leave till May 28 was recommended for Robert Daniel' Bengo, a Kaitoke •farmer, who was' in camp with tho Thirty-eight Reinforcements. Joseph Drummond Peart, whose appeal was lodged on tho ground of undue hardship, had his case adjourned till May. An appeal by Thomas Henry o'Sullivan, tinsmith, was adjourned till April. Cecil Sharpe, marine officer ' on an oversea vessel, was appoaled,for, and the matter was adjourned siue dio. An appeal by Louis Denis Hanratty, bookbinder, TVadcstown, on the ground of undue hardship, was dismissed. Lpiivo till June 25 was granted.

The board will sit to-dav.