MILITARY SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 47, 24 August 1917, Page 5

MILITARY SERVICE

VARIOUS APPEALS HEARD

The sitting of the Third Military Service Board—Messrs. iH. J. Beswick (chairman), M. J.'Mack, and A. O'L. Oonsidine—was continued after The Post went to press yesterday. Captain P. Baldwin is military representative.

Cecil Wm. G. Ward, electrical engineer, Wellington, appealed, but it was admitted that the case was one of financial assistance only. Ward said he was a conscientious objector, and offered to do his best work in some non-combatant capacity. The board agreed to recommend Ward for non-combatant service.

Charles Wm. Norrish, dairy farm employee, whose caso was previously adjourned sine die, produced- a certificate showing that he had served i four months in camp, when he was discharged ' as medically unfit. His appeal was adjourned pending a further medical examination.

Another adjourned case, that of John Thomas Singer, dairy farmer at Paraparaumu, who carried on a farm by himself, was next considered. Singer stated that nobody was dependent upon him. Ho had reared a herd of purebred milking Shorthorns. The board adjourned the case for three months. "You must see what you can do before then," commented the chairman, j

Albert John Robertson, butcher, Paraparaumu, informed the board that he had been classed C 2, and his appeal was not proceeded with. The board decided to recommend that Reuben Mottram, a man who served 15 years with the Navy, and had previously been granted indefinite leave, should be re-examined by the Medical Board. Another man with indefinite leave, William Crawford, Civil servant, . employed in the Department of Internal Affairs, .explained that his mother's condition was now much worse than before. Crawford was given an additional three months' leave,- and was told that it was practically certain he would be taken then.

A re-hearing of his appeal was applied for by Private John Frederick Details, Trentham Military Camp. Five of his brother's were with the naval and military forces of the Empire. The rehearing was allowed, and leave for two months granted. . ■