MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 5 October 1917, Page 5

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD

NELSON APPEALS.

J The following appeals, in addition to J those already reported, were dealt with iby the Canterbury Military Service 'Appeal Board yesterday:

I Walter Joseph Goad, telephone exchange clerk, of Motueka, stated that he was the sole support of his mother, brother and sister. His earnings were £9O a year. wapt. -c'iikington pointed out that if appellant went into camp he would I draw more than lis was earning at present.

Adjourned, pending the fixing of the new scale of allowances. Lornard Charles A. McCabe, surveyor, Nelson, stated that his mother was dependent on him. He was married and had one child. He was earning £SOO a year with camp allowance. — Adjourned sine die, to be called up with the second section of the Second Division for review. Cecil Henry Goodall, who had enlisted and gone into camp and been sent home again as medically unfit, applied for two months' time to arrange his • affairs.—Allowed till December draft. Percy James Arnold, Takaka, was allowed till December draft, and was granted financial assistance. Benjamin Richard Hill, Takaka, was allowed till the December* dra'L. The appeal case of Wyverne Tlumas Edmondson, Golden Bay, was adjourned sine die, the Chairman of the Bi-ard stating that appellant had bett >r s-try and help his mother for a time. Robert Jeffrey Durrant, o'rchard.ist, ■with three brothers serving (one returned), said his father was dependent on him. —Adjourned sine . die. The case of Frederick William Harris Daw, manager of the Taitapu Estates Company, which was adjourned to iliable further evidence to be called, was then taken. .

Mr Hay-es appeared for the appellant. James ~E. Prouse, flaxmiller, sawmiller, and farmer, of Mangarakau, in evidence, said that there were eleven settlers on the estate, and no work of any extent had been done by r the company since 1908. Appellant, in evidence, gave details of the land sold and leased ii. T the company' during the past two ye;ur sr.d negotiations that were ?.!;ce ii regard to mining operations and sale of the property. To Captain Pilkington : It would be impossible for anybody to acij-sve kiio-v ledfre of the estate in twelve moutiis. The chairman said that much cf the evidence was wide of the mark. The question was whether Mr Daw was essential in carrying on the estate, and whether anybody could be obtained to fill his position.

Mi- Hayes submitted that the operations of the company must be import-ant for them to send a man out to NewZealand at a high salary to look after their affairs.

The chairman said the company had known for a year that Mr Daw was in the First Division and liable to be called up. Mr Hayes said appellant's health was such that he did not think he would pas?- the medical test. The chairman said that under the conditions of the war they were taking farmers . from their farms and making men w-ork shorthanded, while so far as appellant was concerned his work was producing nofching, and the board did not think it would be doing justice to the farmers to send them and leave men who were in appellant' 6 position behind. There was not immediate prospect of extensive settlement, but if there were negotiations for the purchase of the estate no doubt these could be facilitated. The appeal would be dismissed and appellant allowed till the January draft.

Frederick Thomas Holyoake, farmer, of Riwaka. whose appeal had been ad- i journed from a previous sitting, said his position had not altered since ho was last before the board. Appeal dismissed; allowed till December draft- ' Norman W. F. Healy. Nelson (IVIr Fell).— Appellant enlisted in April, 1916, and .was rejected as medically unfit, and now asked for four months' ex- j tension with a view to securing someone to carry on his boot business. — Case adjourned till January, to be reviewed then. The appeal of Francis Melville Batchelor, -Murchison, was dismissed, appellant being allowed till January. ( R. Catley, Secretary Nelson College Governors, appealed on behalf of John Woodward Bird, teacher at the Boys' iCollege, a voluntary recruit. Leave granted till/ December 15th. R. G. Coleman, farmer, of Motupiko, was granted indefinite leave. Appellant went into camp in April, 1916, but his father took ill and he returned home. His father was still unable to do heavy work. Hesse Hedley Wimsett, Nejspn (Mr Maginnitv).—Appellant said father could not get anyone to help him in his blacksmith's shop. He was the only assistant, and his father could not do i the heavy work. —Adjourned sine die. The appeal of Frank Brewer, driver, was adjourned for a month, for an application for assistance for rent. Appellant is the sole support of his mother, a widow. The chairman said there was no reason why appellant should not go, except that his mother wanted to ; keep him. Thousands of mothers, he '■ added, desired to keep their eons. j \lex Dixon Douglas, Motueka, was •' allowed till November draft, financial i assistance having been allowed. 1 Eugene Kenneth Ernest Jeffries, Mo-. ' tueka° who declined to take the oath, i said he thought he could get someone to itake charge of his place.—Adjourned ' for application to be made for financial ( The appeal of Lewis Arthur Siggle- >■ kow, of Hope, threshing machine '! owner, was further adjourned for a i report. „ , t-»- ! The appeal of Edward Ryder. Riwa- | ka, farmer and orchardiet. was adjourni ed sine die. . Lawrence Thomasson, Wai-iti, was I leave till after shearing, provided he follows his occupation as a 1 shearer.

I Herbert Anstico, drapery manager I (Mr Maginnitv), applied for a further extension of time, to enable more" ol the stock in his mother's shop to be dieI posed of. He was endeavouring to 1 wind up the business.—Adjor- -d till I next siting for further medical exam- ] ination, and if passed as fit, to go with I the January draft. . ' The appeal of Herbert Edwin Brad'lev, Nelson, who is supporting Ins mother, was adjourned, to be reviewed i in January. ' The appeal of Llewellyn Jones was further adjourned for a month,, pending the new scale of allowance?, j Leslie Allan Brown, of Nelson, who had enlisted three times and been reI jected as medically unfit, appealed on I the grounds of medical unfitness, t The chairman said this was not a iground of appeal for the board i Mr Cheek, for appellant, said he had been in camp, and been granted general leave. He war, now called up for the CI camp. . , j The chairman said that, being a voli untarv recruit, he had no right oi appeal,'notwithstanding the notice from the Department. Appellant stated that on the strength • of being rejected three times he had married. ,-,-•„- n ! The appeal of Thomas William Guy, Nelson, was further adjourned for a month. application to be rqade lor financial assistance. The hearing of the appeal of b. Kirkpatrick on behalf of Charles Milnev was adjourned for a month. 1 'The'Board adjourned at 9 p-m.