APPEALS IN OTAGO

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9526, 7 December 1916, Page 5

APPEALS IN OTAGO

MILITARY SERVICE CASES,

Press Association.

DUNEDIN, December 6. The Military Service Appeal Board sat at Roxburgh to-day. Frank Armstrong applied for four months’ exemption to give time to wind up tho estate of his late father. Appellant managed the farm. William Armstrong, a brother of 'the previous appellant; appealed on the ground that his enlistment was contrary to public interest. William Honner, engaged on his mother’s farm, appealed for the same reason, and John Honner appealed for conscientious reasons. Tho appeals of William Armstrong and William Honner wore adjourned sine die, on condition that appellants remained in the same positions. Frank Armstrong and John Honner were ordered to report for camp on January Hh.

At - a sitting at Lawrence, John and Samuel French, farmers at Forsyth, appealed on the grounds that their enlistment was contrary to public interest. They had a brother at the front, and they managed their widowed mother’s farm in conjunction with one they owned jointly. Both appeals were, allowed, Captain Free stating that the men should not have been called up under section 35,