DRAWN IN THE BALLOT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3105, 8 June 1917, Page 5

DRAWN IN THE BALLOT

CITY APPEAL? RAILWAY GIVES 150 MEN POLICEMEN AND OTHERS EXEMPTED Tlio First Wellington Military Service Board continued iUs session in Wellington yesterday. Tho board consists of Messrs. D. U. A. Cooper, S.M. (chairman), D. M'Lareu, and W. Perry. Can- . tain Walker is .the military reug-esenta-tlVo. „ . Mr. .K. \V. iM'Vill.r, Assistant General JlanflSbY At' Railways, appeared before tho bottHl respecting railway men drawn in tho ballot, and after a' lengthy discussion Air. M'Villy agreed to tho folMwini? nrnmgomont read to him by Captain Walker:— ' Mr. M'Villy withdraws appeals for 108 fit own, and thoso appeals will be dismissed; l'\Mli'tocu man who havo appealed personally can proceed with their appeals, and. is i'ar as the Department is concerned, wo got tho menwhose appeals are . disallowed. ■ Wo get 5G volunteers, all of whom ajo in tho First Division. They, or their substitutes, havo to go to camp at phe end of this month. If any are turned down, or'otherwise we cannot get them-, tho Department will supply us vnth men in thoir places." ~ Tho men are to go into- camp tms month without asking for leave. Adjournments sine die were mado in the cases of the following police constables for whom Commissioner 0 Donovan appealed:—Georgo Lambert, Christ- • church; J". A. Nelson, -Nelson; .W. (x. ICenealy, Westport; Chas. Harley, Duncdin; J. J. Culloty, Auckland; -J. M rntyre. Auckland; A. L. Fleury, Auckland; Joseph Houston, Greymouth; R. J. Bpya, Palmfcrston North; D. O'Brien, ings; R, J. Atkinson. Auckland; D. Wilson, Auckland; S. 11. Bishop, Thames; H. O'Neill, Auckland; A. Leckie. Gisborne; J. Mi O'Connor, Wellington; L. G. Newman, Invereargill; E. A. ChapHttui, Wellington; D. Hasselberg, Wellington; J. Graham, Wellington; R. H. Gibson, Waimate; and J. J. Harvey. Christchureh. The Superintendent of the City Fire Brigade..sought exemption for Sydney Cromwell Hfilthouse (Newtown) and P. J. Hiley (Central), both firemen. Mileys case was adiourned 6ine die, and tho other appeal was withdrawn, as the ap.pellant is in the Home Service Class. William Melville, fire brigadesman, Newtown, appealed on the ground of public intSfgst; and forwarded a birth certificate to. show, that he was under age. His appeal was allowed. Appeals for tho following wireless operators were adjourned sine die:—Arthur Head, James Stanley Scott, William Mouat Bolt : Veitch, John , Aloysms Heavey, and Leonard Vincent Blyth Sutton. The appeal of Randall Fergus M'Kay, also a wireless operator, was adionmed till August.' ; Clarence Herbert Snow, junior, shearer, appealed on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship, and the board adjpnrned the ca-so until the first sitting after November 17. An appeal by Robert Carter, shearer and farm band. Aohanea, on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship, was withdrawn and formally dismissed. In the enses of Colin Angus Lovell and Joseph Dillon, shearers, decision was reserved'till this morning. .Ati adjournment sine die was made in the case of John Richard Lloyd Hammond, farmer. Rata. Thomas William Burrcll, farmer, whose eafls had been adjourned from April i, appealed on'the grounds of public interest find undue hardship. The board reserved its decision. ( • The bo'nrd dccided to reinstate the apneal of ;Eriiesf. Alexander C.ildow, oommercial traveller, which had been die- , missed earlier in the- week because the' appellant failed to apnear. Th? board adjourned till 10 o'clock this morning.