WAR AND WORK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3110, 14 June 1917, Page 7

WAR AND WORK

WHAT MARINERS ARE ESSENTIAL APPEAL CASES ,_A long list; of appeals by tho Onion Company for marine engineers aadunipa' m °fir3n? 6et for bearing by tie First Military Service Board yesterday. , .The. board consists of Mr. D. 0. A. Cooper, S.M. (chairman), Mr. D. MT.aren,_ and Mr. W. Perry: Captain .waiter is the military : representative, ins- men appealed for'by the Union Company were J. Ormiston. J?*"* 0 engineer, Whangarei; John jeorga Uunwoodie, marine engineer. Newmarket; Walter George Scott, marine •snginaer, Wellington; Frank Howatt, 'f a ™e engineer, Wellington; EdwaTd «onn Biion, marine engineer, WellingiP n > Cyril Mitchell, raaririe engineer, g ll 2pand: John Arnold, marine officer, Aort Chalmers; John Henry Dowling, vnaruie officer, Auckland; James Asbury, marine officer, Lyttelton; "Harold George .Isaac, marine engineer, Wellington; ttrederick Gordon Blenman Bilton, faster mariner, Lyttelton: Jack Dunbar Townsend, marine - engineer, Auckland; Stanley Edward Buchanan, marine engineer, Lyttelton; . William Deanis, •marine engineer, Dunedin; Alexander L. S. Cassie, marine engineer. Port. Chalmers: Robert Graham, marine engineer, Auckland; William Loonoy. marine en-. ?ineer, Port; Chalmers; Frederick James Rttson, marine engineer, Auckland; •Reginald Gordon Houghton, marine engineer, Auckland; Basil William M'Kinson Thomson, marino officer, Napier: -Tames John Smith, marino officer, Wellington; Sidney William Lane, third officer, Lyttelton; n.iid James Gordon Macdonald, marino engineer, Wellington. Tho hearings of tho cases -nero adjourned till June 21. - The Gear Company appealed for Peter James Chalmers Jl'i£ee, a puller in their fellmongery department. Mr. S. V. Burvidge, the manager of the department, stated that, he would . need twenty-two pullers this season, and that at present he had only nine. M'Keo was an expert who had been about ! ten years, with, the .company. As far as possible the company now;employed only. men who wcro ineligible for active service. Mr.Jl'Laren asked if tho company.did anything to meot the war condition. Mr. Burridge reiterated that tbey endeavoured to employ only men who would not bs- immediately needed for the front. Witness added that it was difficult to get men to take up the work, and he did not know how he could replace any expert en his staff. The board reserved its decision sine die. An employers appeal w-a6 made for David Sftorer Kerr, marine engineer on a coastal boat, and the appeal was sup : ported by Mr. T. El Wallace, secretary of the Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers, Wellington branch.. In the course of his evidence Mr. Wallace said tbat the shortage of marine engineers in New Zealand was serious. Some time ago. it had been found impossible to get men by advertising for them, and now the position was perhaps more acute still. • Sidney Alexander Murray, a marine engineer, was appealed for by tho West,port Coal Company, and the decision of the board was reserved.sine die. . Tho board will continue' its session this morning. MISSION PREACHER'S APPEAL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, June 13. . S. J. Campbell, in charge of a mission church at Onehunga, applied to the Military Service Board for exemption on the ground of hardship to his congregation. He is not an ordained minister, and it was pointed out, that the mission was not connected with any recognised Teligioiis denomination. : The "case was adjourned for further consideration.