HEARING AT DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16434, 10 January 1917, Page 8

HEARING AT DUNEDIN.

UNDUE HARDSHIP ALLEGED.

MANY APPEALS DISMISSED.

[BT telegbaph.—rnESS association.] DUNEDIN. Tuesday. The Military Service Board continued , its sittings to-day. Horace James S. Hargood, flockmul hand, Roslyn, an only son, with a wife and invalid mother to support, applied for exemption. The appeal was dismissed with regret. Joseph Tlios. Cowley, seaman, of Port Chalmers, applied for exemption on tho ground of public interest. Tho appeal was adjourned for a month, to give tho defendant an opportunity to sign on a ship. . , William Warden Wilson, sanitary plumber, Dunedin, appealed on the ground of undue hardship. The appeal was allowed on public grounds. ~ „ , William Escott, of Dunedin, alleged undue hardship. It appeared that none out of a family of four sons had enlisted. The appel was'dismissed. The appeal of Peter Fisher, kitchenman, Dunedin, on the ground that he was over age, was adjourned, to enable proof to bo submitted. . . John Alexander Grant, dairyman, of Ravensbourno, claimed undue hardship, he having a widowed mother to support. He bad one brother, who was going into camp. The caso was adjourned for medical examination. William Gemmel, joiner, of St. Kilda, appealed on the ground of undue hardship, and was allowed a month in which to settle his affairs. John Graham, teacher, of Caversham, withdrew his appeal. Henry Alfred Hogg, watchmaker, of Maori Hill, pleaded hardship, having three brothers at the front. The case was adjourned for further consideration. Wm. John Mitchell, grocer, North-east Valley, claimed undue hardship, having two brothers at the front, and parents and a family dependent on him. The appeal was dismissed. The appeal of Bertie Byford, foreman fitter, of Dunedin, was dismissed. James Gray, jun., and William Gray, coal miners, of Green Island, appealed on the ground of public interest. Tho case was adjourned to the next sitting of the board, to enable books to be produced showings the output of coal for the past year. An appeal by Alfred James McGregor, gardener, on similar grounds, was allowed; also, that of Daniel Muirhead, carter, of Mosgiel. John Graham, school teacher, asked for time to enable him to sit for an examination, and on his being told that he would not be called up till February, tho appeal was withdrawn. Appeals by Reginald Hector Gillan, carrier, and James Emraett Hussey. carter, who did not appear, were dismissed. The appeal of Daniel James Gilchrist, general labourer, who also, did not appear, was adjourned to give appellant another opportunity of appearuig, documents snowing that a case of undue hardship seemed to 'exist, an only other son having been killed at the front. APPEALS AT OHRISTOHUSCH. MOTOR TRADE NOT ESSENTIAL [BT TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] CHBISTCHURCH. Tuesday. The Military Service Board sat at Christchurch to-day. Kelyn'ge E. England, motor repair engineer, appealed upon the ground of business obligations in February. He said he had arranged to enter the Motor Patrol Service in England, leaving his father to look after bis business, but his father died and he had to come back to look after it. In the event of his being called up he would simply have to let his business go. The chairman stated that .the board did not regard the motor business as indispensable. It was simply a luxury! The appeal was dismissed, appellant being allowed two months' to make arrangements. Percy Battey, Methodist minister, asked to be allowed,to be posted to the Red Cross or other non-combatant branch. The chairman said all the board could do i was to make a recommendation, unless; appellant came within the religious objec-! tors' clause of the Act. Appellant: "I don't do that." The chairman said the board would make such recommendation, and appellant would be allowed four days' leave to attend to his private affairs. i