SERVICE BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 127, 29 May 1918, Page 2

SERVICE BOARD.

I f. HEARING OF APPEALS. CASES DEALT WITH. L Tlie First Auckland Military Servict , Board is still sitting in the city daily. _ Tlie appeal of William F. Bath", oi ™ Hardinge Street, was further adjournec r for two months in view of the peculiai r domestic crreumstancee involved. c Martin L. Wilkins, manager of the t Dominion Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. t Auckland (Mr. Buttle), was given leavt , till July 18 to arrange hie business affairs. j Ernest George, of Buckland. was { granted exemption till July' 18, in ordei jl to make household arrangements. Q James Bull, quarryman, Tuakau, aske<J a for leave to complete contracts. He hac 3 not anticipated that he would be callet n up now. John Routly, engineer to th< c Tuakau Town Board, gave evidence, anc t leave till September 12 wae granted. " Sydney VV. Barnett, postal eorter c Takapuna, said he wae the only remain c ing son of a widowed mother, two bro ( _ thers being still on service. One brothei s had beea killed. The mother made tht c appeal, which was granted, the cast being adjourned sine die. The secretary o f the Seamen's Unior s gave evidence- in support of the exemp r tion of Arthur W. Dale, Oliver Gas s eoigne, Thoe. Murphy, Leslie Skelton n VVm. Smith, Harry Williams, and John % G. Young, who are bcina-iide seamen. i| APPRENTICE'S APPLICATION. 1 Herman G. Bowden (CI), of Khybei ' Pass (Mr. Vallance), appealed on the ground of hardship, as he was an apprentice to carpentering in the service of the Railway Department, and had done four years of the apprenticeship, which would expire in eleven month*. Appellant said hie eldest brother wae on active service, and ac his father's work took him constantly away he (appellant) was necessary at home. His next brother was )G yeare of age, and there were four children going to school. The appeal was supported by the mother. The Board heard the evidence, and said it did not consider . the reasons given justified exemption. I The Board only took apprentices' appeals j into consideration when the term oi apprenticeship expired in three months. I The Board could not go beyond that , i time. Leave till July 4 was granted. i DECISION RESERVED. I Chas. E. Atkin, farmer, Pukekohe (Mr. Hanna), pleaded that he was the last , J man on a farm of 70 acres belonging to hie widowed mother, who wrote eupport- : ing the appeal. A married brother o> appellant had been recently discharged from camp and could not do heavy work. Appellant said the farm, on which lie , had worked since September, would not . pay a manager. Appellant was a mar- ; ried man with a child. The Board reserved its decision. , Henry B. Becroft, of Helensville (Mr. I McConnell), had his case adjourned sine > die, or until hie brother returned from i j service. Appellant, a married man with , j one child, said three brothers were at . I the war, and he was nlanaging the build- • j ing business for his parents and family. ; I Fred W. Adolph, traction-engine pro- . I prietor, Pukekohe, eaid hie threshing IJ and chaff-cutting plant served the i. farmers of the Pukekohe, Puni, Waiuku, ■ I and Mauku districts, where there was ; j another plant, which was insufficient to ■ I cope with the work in the district. The ' appeal wae adjourned for inquiry. " ; BOOT FACTORY PRESSMAN. . Henry J. Anderson, who held the . position of pressman in a boot fac- »; tory (Mr. Hall Skelton) was held to be , j e|jentiaL Over forty hands depended upon him. Pressmen were very scarce. j Charles A. Watt, secretary of the Auck- , land Operatives' Union of Workers, gave evidence, and the Board adjourned the case sine die, remarking that pressmen seemed to be more essential t'lan clickers. Watt mentioned that if tne suggestion made by the union long ago, viz., the cutting being under State couj trol, all the cutting required by AuckI land boot factories could have been ! done with from live to ten men, whereas J there were 30 pressmen in Auckland today, and there was much overlapping. A SCHOLARSHIP PROVISION. Fred C. Brew, Mt. Eden, sought leave !to sit for University Honours and arts examination in November. This, he said, would complete live years' study, and enable him to have secured the full benefit of a scholarship won last year. The witness said that one of the regulations ' stipulated that the examination had to be sat for the year after the scholarship was obtained. He was unaware of the regulation being stretched to allow a holder to eit for the examination on return from the war. The chairman saia that some concession should toe made in such cases. Richard P. J. Rae, acting-secretary to the Board of Education, baid Brews was a teacher at Normal School, and the Board was only supporting a request for time in order that Brewe might sit for the M.A. examination. The Board did not appeal generally for its teachers, 315 of whom had gone to the war. Xlicre was a scarcity of teachers. If Brews dirt not sit for the examination this year he would never get another chance. The Chairman: Is the University Council so castiron that it cannot relax its rules in these cases? —1 understand that it would necessitate the alteration of statutes. Mr. Pine: These rules have come down from the Medea and Persians. The chairman said be believed fixed rules were all right at ordinary times, but with a war on were different. The jJoard gave exemption until November 30. LEAVE FROM CAMP. Thomas A. Cronin, of Matakohe (Mr. Rees), pleaded for the return on leave of his son, as he could not carry on the farms of 84 acres at Matakohe and 24 acres at Paparoa without him. He had tried to do co for six weeks, but had failed because he wae not strong enough. Suitable farm labour was not obtainable. On the laiger farm fifteen cowe were milked, while stock was grazed on tlie other place. He had a 6on of 1C yeare, who was not strong, but could do milking. If they had the "■ ploughing and fencing done the farm could be carried on. Leave from Trenthern Camp for the son was recommended till July 31.