DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1917, Page 5

DOMINION'S PART.

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD. POLICEMEN EXEMPTED. ' Wellington, Jan. 3 At the Military Service Board it was mentioned that 3000 men in- the railway service had been released for military duties. The board granted temporary suspensions in the ease of several applications by the Railway Department, also exemptions to two Catholic priests. Wellington, Last Night. At th. Military Service Board, an application made on behalf of Robert Manwell Sunley, audit cxamini-r in the Treasury, on the ground of public interest and hardship, was dismissed, but. the mili' y representative agreed to obtain leave of absence till the end of April, as appellant was in charge of the public debt register and of details of the recent war loan, and time was required details of the work, which required to train another officer to undertake the special qualifications and knowledge of statutes dealing with the issue of loans, bonds and debentures. Frederick Phillip Monk, clerk in the Defence Records Office, had his appeal dismissed without date, conditional ou his remaining in his present occupation. He stated that he had been rejected by the Medical Hoard as unfit. Exemption was granted to three policemen, Wilson, McCall, and Brown, of Wellington, so long as thej remain in the police force. The Defence Department appealed on behnlr of Percival Ernest Patrick, an accountnnt, who is assisting in the liquidation of enemy firms' businesses in Samoa. He had volunteered, but was rejected on account, of medical unfitness, and was sent to Samoa. The ease was adjourned indefinitely. Exemption was grunted in several eases of men engaged in the mercantile marine and as shearers. An appeal on behalf of William Chr,s. Thorns. Customs officer, was adjourned indefinitely. The Comptroller of Cirloins said that in 1015 there were f>S officers in the Department, and only 21 were now in the first division.