MILITARY SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 112, 11 May 1917, Page 8

MILITARY SERVICE

MISCELLANEOUS APPEALS

HEARD

The sitting of "the 'Third 'Military Service Board in Wellington were continued to-day. Mr. W. H.. Sefton Moorhouse -'■■ presided, with him being Mr. A. O'L. Considine and Mr. M. J. Mack. Capt. Spi"att was the military representative.

The first case taken was that of Victor Mexted, farmer, .of Porirua, who has been" in camp since the end of March. He applied for a rehearing of his; case, the- grounds being that he was urgently -required to' aid in the management of his father's and his own farms, practically adjoining. After hearing evidence the board reserved its "decision, •"""*" ".

The customary exemption was asked for in the case of Robert Sharland Taylor, wireless -operator on a steamer trading to San Francisco. The case was adjourned*, for/fourteen days, in order that the ' company's inspector might .furnish-information to the board, showing the number of operators in the New Zealand First Division now employed on transports, etc.

■ Mr. F. S.-Pope, Secretary of the Department ' of Agriculture, appealed for exemption ..for .Arthur. Elliott. Ramsay, assistant-meat inspector, now in charge of the-Waipaoa works at Gisborne. Evidence was given that"Ramsay had enlisted and was willing. to. go. to camp, but his services' were essential to the work, of the, Department, and an appeal had .to be-lodged. -In reply to the board, Mr. Pope said that if the freezing works closed d.6\Vn;. as, was probable, some men could be released to go into camp. The appeal was adjourned for one month. . ■ ,

■- In the case pi Owen..Wylder',Bamfield, clerk in- the- Public Trust Office, the appeal was dismissed, it being announced that he "had been^'passed as. medically fit for home service.

Evidence as the essential nature of the boiler-making industry was given by Mr. W. Cable,'who ''appealed on behalf of Patrick Joseph Fitzgerala, who, he said, could not be spared. He gave a list of transports, Government food ships, and coastal ships on which Fitzgerald had been engaged—absolutely essential work. The case, which was previously before the board, was again adjourned for three months.-. , ■■ • . ■

In the cases of James Henry Forrester and William Wallace, Customs examining officers, the former was- adjourned for furth'er:Zjnedical"examiriati6n r .-and three months' exemption was granted to the latter. • .. . ..,...,..... ' ■

..'."-A"furtKeKadjournment of two months' was granted in the case of: George Ernest Bartlett Adamson, secretary, care of Whitconibe and Tombs, Ltd., Wellington, domestic reasons"being .the ground. On the,, application ,of.. .Mr.: '..John O-'Donovan, 'Commissioner ofr Police, "exemption "sine -die,: was granted mV the cases*of the"following members of the Force :—Constables D.« Wilson. (Wanganui)/ Thomas:"William"Cox (Wellington), David Wallace (Wellington), John A. J. D. Aimes (Dunedin), Alec H. Barnee (Wellington), -John Abel (Oamaru), John i "F. Haminerley. (Dunedin),: Thomas H. Hall (Dunedin), and Lawrence Fox (Aldington). ' ■

The appeals of Charles Edward Proctor, draper, and;: Francis Joseph Proctor, school teacher; both of Island Bay, previously before the board, were dismissed. The /appeal of ' Royal, Annitage Holmes was adjourned-for three months, and' that of Thomas" Reeves,' farmer, .of Paparangi, until Monday next. '..

Harold Leonard Cording, storeman, 7, Oxford-terrace,, had his appeal dismissed owing to non-appearance.

, . In regard to the, appeal of Cornish Tunley, , t horse-driver, Johnsonville,. t an' .adjourn<3d';;caSe, a further, adjournment for three months was granted. •

(Proceeding.)