MILITARY SERVICE BOARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1337, 10 September 1918, Page 2

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD.

YESTERDAY'S ArI’FALH

Tim First. Wellington Military Service Board opened its September sitting at- t-m Magistrate's ( burl, ye-ierday afternoon. ( lie members of the Board are Messrs D. H. A. Cooper, H.M. (chairman), D MeLiU'eti, ana T, Young. Captain McDonnell represented iho Dr fence Department. COUNTY COUNCIL’S aFFF-AD. The t’ohanginn Countv Council appealed on in half of J’ereival Webster Lamb, county clerk (Mr limes), Henry William Stuart, chairman of I ciliangina County Cmneil, .staled that they were not applying for lo'iu| exemption, _ but for an extension of time. Appellant did all the clerical work of the Council, and they wenendeavouring to obtain a man to take by place, but so far had had only one application. Fleven of the Council's^ employees had enlist-xl, and tin’s was the hr si appeal that, had been made . ,

The appeal was adjourned to nest sitting BACON OURER’S APPEAL.

Further evidence was taken hi the appeal ..I Robert F. Garrity, bacon eurer, Palmerston North (Mr Cooikt). William Darragli stated that, he carried on an extensive pig farm at Rongotea. Over 400 pigs had been slaughtered this year, and appellant hurl done all the slaughtering in a most eUieient manner. Witness knew of no one else who e. n!d have doiio the work.

it hert Francis Gnrihv gave evidence Inal he did all the slaughtering for ids linn, besides a. considerable amount of outsido W'.iut. Witness considered tl-.u it wmild take abouttwelve months to train a man to take Ids place. He had had about seven years’ experience of the work hints-’.f. —Decision was e-a i veil.

APPEALS FDR UPTURN FROM At TivK skrvkt;.

Geolfrey Potts, fanner, Palmerston Norlit (Mr .1 ae-.)i>s), made, application lor tile relnrn t.f hit son from active service. Appellant suited that Ids son hud been wounded in June, 1017, and had since been doing work iii New Zealand depots in England. Appellant considered iliat his son would be of more use in New Zealand, and was quite willing for him to do homo service, work. Appellant himself was also in failing health, and required his sen to oversee bin farm.

Tli i Hoard hud nu recommendation to mu hi l on tin' i-viiJi’ii..o submitted, and tho app.-al was dismissed. Mrs it, MH.-arthy, Palmerston North, for whom Mr Hurley appealed, made further application lor tin* rt turn of her son Henry I.’ tall, on iniiva ■■ ■ viei*. Tins appeal was adjourned from hi,-i sluing of ihr Hoard to see whether appellant's husband would be passed for service. Mr Hurley intimated that Mr McCarthy had !wen classed (T, bur. his client would like tie* Hoard to make* a recommendation for her son 1 .-* return, as he (tin* son) had been gassed, and was in hospital. Tho chairman pointed ...at, that appellant s son would receive the he.-1 of treatment in hivspiuil, and it was therefore not considered ad visa,hie to make a reec.!nniendai;<.n for iii.s return at present-. OTHER APPEALS. Mrs Stuart, Awarnri, appealed for an extension of time for iter son, Thomas Stuart, farm hand, Awaliuri.- Decision 'v.rreserved. Alljort Ernest Mathcon, watchmaker and jeweller, Foildlii", appealed on awount ot the stale of his wife’s health, Appellant stated that his wife had been paralym d for seven years through and accident.— The Hoard reserved its decision sine die. MaeKetizie Heifers, fanner, Halcomb:*, a married man with two children, slated that Ida farm consisted of 105 acres and earned a herd of 20 cows and other mixed stool,. The cows wen* milked by hand, and appellant. did all the work on the properly him self.- Appeal adjourned to next, sitting.

Geevil Seel 1., contractor, Shannon, who applied for an extension of time, had Ids appeal adjourned to next sitting.

• lohn Mehrtenii, enginedriver, (lien Ornna. slat -d that he was employed by tin* (Hen Oroua, Dairy Company, and supervised tin* engineering work at the factory. Appellant’s parents were both Germans, arid he considered that owing to race prejudice, ho would not get a straight run if ho were sent into camp.—The appeal was adjourned pend mg u report from the Defence Department. In the appeal of Alfred Percy Francis, farmer, Rewa, the Hoard reserved its decision sine die, Tho appeals of Galeb Pearson, plumber, Feilding, and Percy A. Patterson. Redding, on active service, were withdrawn.