MILITARY SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 2, 27 September 1918, Page 8

MILITARY SERVICE

CITY APPEALS

TWENTY HEARD YESTERDAY

A score of eases were heard by the First Wellington Military Service Hoard in the cit.v yesterday. Tho members of the board are Messrs. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., D. M'Laren, and G. Williams.

Decision was reserved sine die in the case of James Scott Connell, postmaster, Hataitai,-who appealed on the ground of nndue hardship. Leave till January was allowed Perev Thomson, linotype operator, on account of illness in his family.

Clifford George Jackson, commercial traveller, appealed on tho ground of family hardship. His case was partly heard and then adjourned till next sitting for the production of medical evidence.

The employer of Frank Healy, tiler, asked for time for Healy so that some contracts could be finished. Leave till January was agreed to. An adjournment till December vas made in the case of William James Wilcox, bootmaker, Hataitai, who appealed for business and family reasons. Time to complete contracts was the reason for appealing given by Benjamin Oswald Simmoiids, carpenter. Ho was allowed leave till November.

Thomas • Michael Pender, . tailor's cutter, Island Bay, was appealed for by the Wellington Woollen. Company, who stated that they now had only two cutters Whereas they used to have four. The case was adjourned til! January. Norman Johns, factory manager and part owner of the Dominion Dairy Produce Co., appealed on the ground of business hardship. The company employed seven hands, nnd last yetiv exported 75 tons of butter. The appeal was dismissed. Ail adjournment till next' sitting was made in the appeal of Harold S. Donoghue, cabinetmaker, Lyall Bay. The' board dismissed an appeal by Richard William Huyton, a- carpenter oil the s.s. Hinemoa.

An extension of leave was aslce.d for bv Charles 11. Larikshear, bookbinder, Karori. The board granted him till April. Thomas 13elsey, stage hand, appealed on the ground of family hardship, piul the case was adjourned till next sitting for the production of a medical certificate.

Sidney William Kelly, manager of a clothing manufacturing business, appealed on account of the difficulty of getting a suitable man to fill his place, lis was given leave till January. An appeal by A. 11. Blandford, actor, "Thirteenth- Chair" Company, was allowed on the ground that lie was domiciled in Australia. V. J. Farrell, Brooklyn, sought an extension of time. The case was adjourned till Januaryi ' Frederick A r alentine Ward, waterside worker, was transferred to Class C., George W. Eiby, clerk,' was given leave till November. Peter Scott Wishart, a waterside worker, described N as a particularly i;sefnl man, was appealed for, and decision was reserved sine die.

Leave till January was the decision in the case of Thomas J. Harvey, clerk.