MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3189, 13 September 1917, Page 6

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

CITY APPEALS BUSINESS AT YESTERDAY'S SITTING Tho First Wellington Military Service Board sat in Wellington yesterday. Mr. D. G. A. Cooper, S.M., presided, and tho otlior' members ot the board aro Messrs. iG. Williams and D. MTriren. ' It was stated that 305 Appeals for railway men had been withdrawn,-and tho board accordingly " formally dismissed them. The board reserved decision in ah appeal by Mrs. Richardson on behalf of Private .Alfred Richardson. Three of appellant's four sons aro at tho front, and the one appealed for is in camp. Decision was reserved in the matter of an appeal for Private 11. J. Northwood, a Te Kopuru farmer. The board granted a month's leave to Private H. Brockie for family reasons. The Salvation Army appealed for Giptain T. Camiichael, of Riverton. The board adjourned the case indefinitely. Sergeant-Major J. H. Edie was granted leave till December on account of tho ill-health of his wife.

Indefinite leave was granted Arthur E. Kendall, ship's engineer. Adjournments were granted in the cases of J. T. -Welsh, SI. Jackson, and Denis Cody, all Marist Brothers. The case's will be heard at the next sitting of the board. Leave was granted Henry B. Willis, a commercial traveller for Sharland and Co.. tilt October 19. Tho appeal of William Byrne, salvage worker and rigger, was adjourne'd. The mother of Charles William Wootton, a farm hand, appealed on his behalf, on the ground that his calling up occasioned the family undue hardship. The appeal was'dismissed. Eric Albert Algar, joiner, Kilbirme, sought a further extension of time. The case was adjourned till to-day. Andrew James Gordon, railway porter, Upper Hutt, appealed on the ground of undue hardship. The board dismissed the appeal, but granted him leave till October 17. m.. Another Tailway porter, H. C. Profntt, asked for about a month's leave for domestic reasons. Leave till October 17 was granted. j Allan Alexander Grant, a conductor on tho Wellington tramways, stated that he was 20 years of age. He had. volunteered seven times and had every time beeni turned down. He had married since his rejection, and he wished to be granted leave for family reasons. He was granted leave till October, and the board decided to recommend that special leave be granted him till January also. Tho board then adjourned till to-day.