APPEALS AT ROTORUA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16500, 28 March 1917, Page 8

APPEALS AT ROTORUA

■ EXEMPTION IN TWO OASES.

, - . . ■ | -SEVERAL GIVEN. MORE TIME. J [BY TELECIUWI.— CORRESPONDENT.] ■".;■•;, EOTORUA. Tuesday.' The ;; Second 'z Auckland % Military Service Board sat in Rotorua to-day. The chairman, Mr. F. Earl, K.C., 1 presided. ', j ■' Harry Marrow, farm manager, said one brother. had been killed:and- ono was serv-' ing in France. .The owner of the farm j was also fighting. Appellant said : he had been. 12 ; years with his present employer. The Farmers',' Union supported the appeal. The case was adjourned sine die The. case of James Thomas Donaldson, dairy. farmer, waa adjourned sine die, : I David Anderson, a fanner, 46 years of I age, said had, been on back-block ' coun- j try for 26 years. The r caso was adjourned for a : month, the applicant to ; lie advised ■ if it was necessary for him, to appeal. Exemption was granted to Richard Clarence Lewis till May 29; W. ■"' R. Knight, farmer, of whose"brothers ha a been killed' and oho wounded, till June 26 William Bird, Te Puke, who is managing his mother's farm as ; well as ''his own farm, till May 29 George W. Greenslade, who had three brothers in the forces, ! till' Juno 26; Michael Conroy, a voluntary (recruit, till May f-V\.. James• B&tsoa- tilt il/ay .1; and Wm. Baker, who farmed ST acres, carrying 350 sheep, 'till May ' 50. I The., case of'.Horace: Minto Griffiths, ) motor-service owner, Tauranga, ' who said he .had tlire.e brothers at' tho front,' was | adjourned till next' sitting. • ' - . . - ?': [An appeal by John Humphrey,, a voluntary recruit drawn in the ballot, was I allowed. "'

_ The cases of the following were' adjourned for a month , pending reports by the local Board of Trustees:—John Henry McGinnis, Henry Carey, a,id F. Vincent Karl.