MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

Evening Star, Issue 16350, 16 February 1917, Page 8

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

MARINE ENGINEERS.

Before tho Military Service Board at Wellington yesterday appeals were ’edged by a, number of mercantile officers and

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Mr Wallace (secretary of the (Marino Engineers' Institute) and Mr Kennedy (Vv eilington manager of the Union Company) were examined. Captain Baldwin asked if tho company wer-• going to ask for the same standard regarding age n! > before (he war, to winch Mr KG iincdv renin d that, so lar as be knew, the company had made no alteration in the -a .;■> uoiiirenmidH men wi".e md cmnn'tcut for posu(oils as engineers, the -omininy surely ought not to be force 1 lo release oii.w competent men in order j 0 Like on, iiir-amp-'Kul men. The Union Company had played the game ever since the beginning of rim war. and .hr Government had scud so. At present the company had ~nt made anv a 'tcrat ion in (h- age standa-d. Mr Korun dy wen! on to - us (hat lie hj ’■O'-orv.’d a, let r fiom an on,gearhad -I.], I and g-ns- I;, ms. Th ■ ainincmn-s jo..|- him nut of tin- trenches and net thorn on a, warship, M’ Km.-wdv. that there i- ri',, -1, •it'd (Hu if - lard " engm-’-v ; !,,, s cert hmates. at-' avail-hh- !'nv •s si, ! o’ tek ni on. in . rd.,-r ;•> t c.-o • C’o First Dividon. Mr lv mv.’.-iy r-hei.itod his former ‘o*h t ‘lms- nto;i, it pinto (!-,■-■ : r.-' ! dpwddos- in Mr,] )o -. h-,f hr- , pi.-.t o-w tii’ s.-.-t . o Ms K -dr .-id , ■ s- f’, (ivs ero being rr.it bv Id’ -ip ’hi v were a idU unpaval ’ . ]’ - )• ! . ■■■ , m In-, min i, : n n-.p; -. , Vi!l b'dig ran for ; Im' .mh’m i-nMit. If, t,,-:m-m . f .-d’cnlage of , ngim e-.. a-d 'a,.. -V i ' "C laid j| w-)i;hl he a -wd im-H. f r - ,i„, but ?'.iVunhii!-» hi jbe - -iji-i.. . .-■■■ fa.- cs the public how-it 0n.;.,;, iU i !s(.m. Ed the : .-. atfad in C i ~rns‘. ... bn hj -H, ; ' • tioo'pgh a. v-n v sit vt i-U rr-ipt’..— - ' pins, and which was - ,-.f u steamn-, [f th ’ ,him-wi„-- \> -v hj to he iniaiec to .-v ere nm ~ g -,c odd \ - , much aoc- nlaat . Hm diih, m,v ;n ,m to lin Ho inarm . f coal. h'-m i!y Hi ■ bo.-c.l grant.- I men t,; croav-or ni six <.;• ; .■ s , v . , in iiire-’ . 'as ss. li:s Chanmar said tKu, in wic-v t.f -h-’ tact liiat. t ;>:• Union fo-np-Miv sistogr , n men a; ,Hy : og , Adti :: , V : enginee:/.-. comp!’, in g uttit then m. reg'ttat oils with uge.rd t,, bthty. a is a tii m Hmy were taak.ng no st-o-, by advu lisente;,l to sow. .iigi' 1 ,-d, w!;o wan now aslms. . U:--. i -c, ',i it it 10 be diet! n.tly It;; '■ r ‘ ,• d imp 'in ll|l -i ! V" men eligible for nndtsi's -m’.-i,',’ would not Ik- cxmnmod ii-ti! o „H S u. „...

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