MILITARY SERVICE APPEALS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1918, Page 3

MILITARY SERVICE APPEALS.

A TEACHER'S CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, July Hi. At the Military Service Hoard to-day, fh-j Riccarton School Committee appealed for R. 11. Xorth, the only male assistant jh the school. Counsel pointed ' out that the Hoard of Education had declined to appeal and the committee had been forced to ask for an extension of time till the end of the year The chairman (Mr. Bishop, S.M.) said counsel asked them to approve the principle of a committee going over tho head of the Education Board, which wis tha constituted authority in these matters and whose representations were bound to have weight. Counsel contended,.!hat it was competent for the Military Service Board to find the Board of Education had not properly considered the matter. Eventually an extension till October was allowed. , . LAST MAN ON FARM. Wellington, July 16. At the First Wellington Military Service Board to-day, the acting-chairman (Mr. M'Laren) made a statement in teferenee to tljp last man on farms and the attitude of the hoard with regard to appeals. A great many people had been misled and certain designing individuals were taking advantage of the Government's declaration that production must be kept up

He read an advertisement from a certain newspaper offering a property for ssle and commencing;:-—"Be the last man on the land," and added: "J don't know whether the individual who concocted that and sent it forth had the impression that it was going to mislead any Military Service Board. From the commencement the board ha.? been guided solely by its order of reference (section 18 of the Military Service Act). There it, had statutory directions and had carefully considered the matter Df keeping up production. It was not a question of military service or production, hut of military service and production. Tho Empire had to maintain both, therefore the board rfiwed the question of the last man on the farm from the standpoint, of the actual conditions existing There had been numbers of cases where there \va 5 one farm at the outbreak of the war, hut that farm had become four or five farms by the time an appeal reached the hoard. In other instances people had bought farms, clearly to protect themselves from giving their services to the Empire. The hoard was not disposed io be thus misled. 1 '