MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3108, 12 June 1917, Page 7

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

CITY APPEALS

CASES HEARD YESTERDAY

The* First Wellington Military Service Board sat ia Wellington yesterday. Mr. D. G, A. Cooper, S.M., is chairman of the board, end the other members■β-ro Messrs. D. M'Laren and W. Perry. Cantain Walker is i,ho military representative. -■..--. Thecaeeof Archibald Patrick O'Eeilly, railway .employee, (Jreymouth, was allowed to stand orer til), .after August 10. Hairy Tozer. marine officer, stated 'that he was. a resident of A T e-w South Wales, and his appeal was allowed. Walter Mar Eden, aSalvation Army lieu,tenant at Georgetown, and Tom Gibson Shilton, a Salvation Army captain at Pahiatua,- were appealed ior, and their appeals -were. adjourned sine die. to be reviewed before tho Second Division is called. Colonel Bray, who appealed, said that twenty-six ■ out of: ninety-nine eligible officers had, con'j to tho front. An appeal .for Henry H. A. Youn?. Inconje. Tax 'Departmeat; Aucklandi ivas ■withdrawn. -' ' ■■,'.. ■ The Income Tax Department also sought temporary exemption for Bruce A. Black, and leave , till August 33 was "■"tinted, The Public Trustee appealed for DaVii.l O'Dondghue,' chief dark, papier, who ivas granted leave till August 22,-, and for Richard. Froud Ward,' clerk, Wellington, whose case the board aijjourned till September. ; : - ' ;' Adjojtnments sine die wevo mado in the-cases of Aithur James Tiay and Peter M'Grath. prison warders, Waikeria. ..... ' Kenneth Hush Smyth, Customs examiner, and .Tphn Hercus Steinmetz, Customs statistics clerk, were, nftpealeil ior. It was stated thiit tho normal staff of examiners', was 58. It was now down to 49," and there were no understudies. The work had The apceals wero adjourned sine die, Henry . Williamc marine oflSeer, appealed on the ground that ho was not a Reservist, and the appealivas*allowed. An appeal lodsed by Alfred Cecil Curtis, fanner,. Job-nso'iiville;, was' Vitlidrawn...' ■? •:■■■ '.■■■■ : ' •■ Leave-.till Aupust 22 was granted John C. E. _ Stack, -.•:■■•; . Decisions were' res?rved sine dio in the cases of Neil M r Crai(f and Duncan .T. Young, marine engineers, and , Archibald: Davidson,' transport baker.

Appeals for John Livingstone., assistant lighthouse-keeper, ' Cape Palliser, and JJoborfc Cecil Kno.x, instructor on a training ship, w-pre: adjourned sine die.

Dr. yalintine. Chief of tho Health Department, appealed for the exemption of Dr. Robert Wallace Wailo, New Plymouth. Three medical men had already cone from New Plymouth, and Dr. Wade ■ii-as tal.-ing tho place of one of them. Prom New Plymouth a very largo district was covered, and. tho wort on the shoulders of tho remaining doctor-? was heavy. The board reserved decision sine din. . .';.■■..