BALLOT APPEALS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 42, 18 February 1918, Page 8

BALLOT APPEALS

MILITARY-: SERVICE BOARD

This morning* the" local sittings of the Third Wellington Military Service Board were resumed. Mr. D. M. Findlay presided, with him being Mr. A. O'L. Considine, and Mr. D. M'Lai-en (a member of tn"e First Wellington Board). On the application of Mr. W. A. Kennedy, Wellington manager for the Union -Steam.Shipi.Gov> -Ltd,,- exemption-sine die ' on'th*e~iYsuaT~ conditions was granted in the cases of the following marine officers and engineers :—James Bankine, master; James Baldwin, master; John MacLeau, master; A. C. Showman, master; J. L. Brisco, Ist officer; V. G. Webb, Ist officer; S. A. Chatfield, Ist officer; W. H. Harrison, 2nd officer; K. G. Don, 3rd officer; R. M.- Scott, 3rd officer; W. Harms, 2nd officer; F. S. Horn, marine superintendent; R. H. Stewart, Ist officer; F. M'Conville, chief engineer; Joseph Cable, chief engineer. '" -. 'An,! appeals was:, lodged ori "behalf of William ..George. JVilkinsbn,..: permanent fire brigadesman> ana yvas supported by Superintendent Toit, who stressed the . necessities of the city as the ground of the appeal. Leave until June .was granted..

■ Exemption sine" die was granted in the case of Duncan M'Gillivray, tramways •traffic manager:; The; appeal, (a departmental one) was supported by Mr J. O'Shea, City--Solicitor „ On the application of the Inspector of Prisons, similar-decisions were arrived at in the cases of George ~H. J. Aitken and E. 0. Hooker, prison warders at Invercargill and Auckland respectively. An employers' appeal was lodged on behalf of Wilfred H. Spalton, butcher and-shopman in the employ of the; Gear Company! Mr. Tripe appeared in support of the appeal, which was adjourned for four months.

•Leave until 29th May was granted in the employers' appeal for more time on behalf of John 0. Coope, refrigerating 'engineer in the employ, of the Wellington Meat Export Company. A three-months' adjournment was .granted...in the...case.of .Sidney,... Garland Woon, -officer in charge of-Dalgety and Co.'s merchandise department, Wellington. . -. . 11 Documents. proved that William 1 Henry Pollock; secretary, Wellington, is in Class B of the Second Division, and his appeal was allowed." ; * ," ,;;'

*0n tho application of the secretary of the Cooks' and Stewards' Union, ex'umption sine die was granted in thecases .of the following stewards, cooks, -butchers, - laundrymen, ■ etc-.-r the —great (majority-of whom are serving on.transports :—Hubert Vivian Ingram, Herbert Carpenter^ James ; Frederick. Hindry, Percy Boddy, Henry Skaiiie," Harry .iHbckbaum,: George Edward" Stoneham, Samuel Stump, Cecil William Sutton, A. Carbine, Harij Freeman^ Frederick.Ar'|thur."TJiddle,- -Frederick Thomas Teague, 11/.:"C. Madderni" Percjr.,;Horace Httggins, Robert Hector Peak, ;Stuart >'M;'Kechnie{ Archibald. Knowles,CWilliam For'syth", Archibald.. Telfer.',JoseplCHam,£ay^"Robert 'Edward■Hayden, r Frederick Patience, Percy Hubert.' Hayward, 'Charles -Humphreys, E. X GawleV, Albert Waghorne, Jame3 Harrison, Ernest Nicholson Krohn, Stanley L. Bennett, Jolm. Joseph Woods,:. ; Walter - William JtfuttbiF;: .. „ ..!:' :": |'-'Iv the case of Neill-M'Lauchlan, stew-. ard," a tKree .months'"adjournment' was ordei'ed;

Mr. H. D. Bennett emphasised the 'necessity for retaining theC services of iHeriry Ei; Harvey,; manager^ butter factory;' Ohutu, Taihape, • and--a,ppealed on his behalf. A sine^die adjournment was granted. * , . Miv;Tripe.appeared : in support of the "appeal. lodged by the Gear . Meat Company on behalf of Norman Wilton, a slaughterman. The case was one of a rehearing, having been dismissed by an•.ofcheivii'bard.:: Leave „until., the ; end of April was allowed. In the case of 'William Charles Cook, marine engineer, Wellington, his mother appealed. She told"thra' board that he was, just over .twenty years of. age, and not. long .out. of his., apprenticeship; one son had gone with the Main Body; one ■had gone with the' Australians ;--a son-in-law had.been killed in Egypt;.,and the third son had volunteered for service with' the -Tunneling Corps, but was medically unfit. Leave for two months was granted, to enable Cook to be called to a ship.,, .i „■ .'..' •-- -„. -i ■% -

In the case of Leonard H. Boecker, tram conductor, Newtown,. he said .he was .the' billy son of his mqther, and appealed 'on this'ground.. Leave until Bth May was recommended. ■

On the'-ground that lie is doing essential woi'k'in supervising some.seventeen orchards in the Kuby Bay district, an appeal was lodged on- behalf of John Francis Foley, of Nelson.—lt was ascertained on enquiry that he was medically classified C 2, j and ■ the appeal.' was adjourned sine die.

■As'they are in.later classes'of the 2nd Division, the appeals of. the. following wore allowed:—A. J. Lac'ey, painter, Petone; J.- J. M'Cormack,-labourer, Wellington;. Wilfred Owen,.stonemason, Lyall Bay; Harold Stamford, builder, Lyall v ßay._ ' Aajournnients-until-Moy* were-gi'anted in the caßes of A. 0. Shaw, clerk, Wellington; N. y..;Mi]ls, merchant tailor, Petone ; ; B.- '.■LV'-Shievinj-" driver, Kel=,burn_ ..',-.<'.":',.■'...- ■ ';■'., . V

... The.;.appeal,,of Thomas .Whiting, iron machinist. Petone, was adjourned for "one "month,""and''that bf A. H. Neich was adjourned pending receipt of the ■Railway- Department's appeal.- • Mr! (1 P. Skerrett, K.C., appeared in support of the appeal lodged by Nathan ; and' Co. in respect of Sydney, Jacobs, a clerk in their employ. -■•"-■•■■•' (Proceeding,) 1

Regret is expressed by. Mr. W. Lewis, ■who, as a labour of love, devotes much of his time to teaching swimming, that comparatively few boys have put in an appearance this season to take advantage of his gratuitous service. At the Thorndon,Baths,it is..chiefly .old,.pupils who have been already taught who. have gone along, While at Te Aro only from one to ,six...boys"" seek.his help. ... Mr. Lewis .writes,:—-"I want to see at least from one dozen to fifty boys.at Te Aro Baths m Saturdays who are' nonJswimrners—the more the merrier. I would like all these boys to see; me as regards land drill before entering the-water ; then my task and theirs would be a much, easier one. I. ..find i that; boys .under, eight years, of age are too slow to acquire the art compared with the older boys, and therefore Tnuch'. valuable" time is wasted on that account; I would be pleased also if the boys who I have taught and who have not entered their names in my notebook would do 'so by seeing the caretakers at. both'baths or myself when instructing'at the;'baths. ■ 'There is still about six weeks' of the swimming season left, and I am anxious to see what can be accomplished before/the season ends. The hours at Thorndon Baths are, in the week mornings, from 6.10 to 6.40 iLm.i'and'at"Te Aro Baths.on Saturdays from" 10 a.m. to noon and resuming at .1.30.. t04.30.p.m.". . .

• : Mr. 1 Norton. A.- J. Barker was this morning, on the application of Mi*. A. Dunn, admitted by his Honour the Chief .Justice,, (Sir .Robert; .Stout)'; a solicitor of the Supreme Court. His Honour remarked that Mr. Barker had only reached '. his majority oh Saturday .last.

'Messrs. "-CAY. .Price and '. Co.. ,vt\\\ sell the contontsrof -the' Shetland* Bnkery and Dining Rooms, Cuba-street, to-morrow, .and.Wednesday,-cojnmonomjr at 10.30 a.m. each day. . ,