HIT BY THE BALLOT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 148, 22 June 1918, Page 11

HIT BY THE BALLOT.

I : r — X THE PUBLIC SERVICE. I ' •?J " APPEALS FOR EXEMPTION.- g n y/y . ;■ 1 ■: '■*. (By TelegrapU— to " Star.") 5| ;/Ji?' WELLINGTON, this day. "I , :''- : The military service 'ballots are now '■'I "ft hitting tbe Public Service hard, because -l\ " -of tie inroads into the administrative I ' staffs. This was evidenced by the num■l ;. :■ ber of appeals before the Wellington ■ j - Military Service Board to-day. Mr. R. f Tri'-B. Controller of the Department of i] ' Imperial Supplies, applied for exemption J -^ or George C. Smith, assistant account'i ant, Leonard C. Mitchell, clerk, and if :-David-Rutherford, chief accountant. Mr. If Triggs said that the Board would gather J- . the importance of the Department when . I ' he stated that its disbursements ex- :| ceeded £165,000,000. Thoroughly qualiI fied competent men were necessary in ■ I -dealing with the business of the Departi{ - ment which had also to deal with quests ftions affecting shipping, produce, meat, 1 \and butter transactions, and the butterand butter transactions, and the butterJ ; ; fat levy. In reply to Mr. McLaren, Mr. "i -."Triggs said he did not now accept men ?j 'for work in the office fit for military serif ; ./vice. Mr. McLaren said that he under- !■[ '.'stood there were a number of men in the -f '' Department anxious to go to the front, ll :'X Mr. Triggs: That may be so, but they ;| may be doing very much better work I . "' here. • I '. The Board reserved its decision. J "" : Mr. Hay, Inspector-General of Mental - ; Hospitals, appealed on behalf of John D. Woods, mental hospital attendant, • Christchurch. Dr. Hay explained that . owing to about half the mental staff r, having gone to the front it was necesI : sary to retain experienced attendants. i( . Decision was reserved sine die. I . The Controller of the Customs Depart- / ment, W. B. Montgomery, asked for the .:■:.: '; exemption of Frank C. J. Fantham. examining officer at Christchurch. He stated j : that at the beginning of the I. _rar there were 58 examining officers in the Department, now there were only 33. There was only II one single man in the clerical division j who had been exempted from military j service. He was willing to go, but bad been exempted because he had three or ' four brothers already at the front. Sine j ( die decision was given in this case, also "in respect of H. W. Williams, examining • officer, Dunedin: and William H. Fisher, examining officer at Auckland. h APPEAL FOR STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATES. % ; The Chief Clerk of the Department of •Justice, W. Gollan, appealed on behalf ..of Mr. Wyvern Wilson, stipendiary magistrate at Auckland. - The chairman: You say it is impossible to replace Mr. Wilson? i Mr. Gollan replied that at present 'seven stipendiary magistrates were en- • gaged in work in ' connection with the .Military Service Act. The magistracy • was at present considerably below its /normal strength, and the result was rthat several magistrates were now- attending to two districts. The magistrates had been classed as most essential Sby the National Efficiency Board. '.-The Board reserved its decision sine die in this case, also in respect to E. D. ilesley, S_SL, Thames, and E. Page, Auckland. Sine die decision ~1-S given in respect of William D. Wallace, clerk of the court at Westport. 4 C. E. Matthews, Inspector of Prisons. ,|sked, for . exemption {or Frederick C Boon and Donald Thomson, prison warders, and John Down, officer in charge of the Waikeria reformatory at Te Awamutu. Decision was reserved sine die. In appealing on behalf of John R. Astall, teacher of a native school near East' Cape, J. Caughley, Assistant Director, of Education, said that 700 primary school' teachers had already gone on active service, half of the secondary school teachers, five inspectors, and one of the principals of a training college. In the case of the native school teacher it was essential that his wife should also be able to teach. Decision was reserved sine die.