MILITARY SERVICE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10085, 25 September 1918, Page 7

MILITARY SERVICE

FIFTY-FIVE APPEALS HEARD BY FIRST WELLINGTON BOARD. Fifty-five cases were down for hearing yesterday by the First Wellington Mill ta-ry Service Board—Messrs D. G. A. Coopci, S.M. (chairman). D. McLaren, and Guy Williams. The Union Steamship Company, represented by Mr A. W. Kennedy (Wellington manager), appealed for the ex enaction of A. C. W. N. Aimers, .7. G. Bannatyne, A. W. CMacdortald, and B. L. Arrowsmith (ships’ engineers), and also of H. S. Why bora (ship’s captain), D. McPherson and G. G. Grey (first officers). J. R. Owen (third officer). J. R. Clarke (second officer), and J. Every-Ciayton (cadet). F.ach case was adjourned indefinitely.

the appeal of the Mental Hospitals Department, William Edward Bertram (attendant. Porirua), John Thomas Vickers (attendant, Dunedin), Robert Ry-oe and George Millar A.rmit (attendants, Soacliff), were exempted indefinitely. In reply to the chairman, the representative of the department stated that during the past twelve months they had had fifty probationer attendants, and fiftyone had gone. Mr McLaren: So you are one to the bad on the year? Witness: Yes; they come and go We take them on and then find them unsuited to the work. The Public Trustee appealed fox the exemption of Samuel P. Briggs (correspondence clerk, Christchurch) and K. W- 11. Browne (deputy public trustee, Dunedin). —Decision was reserved. The secretary to the Cooks and Stewards’ Union appealed for the exemption of the following ships’ cooks and stewards :—P. V. Fowler, W. E. Bell, C. E. kittle, and W. Bell.—Decision was reserved.

Appeals were lodged by tlia SeameWs Federated Union in respect of —Lewis Ernest Sayers i(fireman e.s. Mararoa), William Arthur Nelson (able seaman, Wellington), Percy Alfred Dawson (able seaman, Eoromiko), Leslie John Coffey .fireman),- John Turner (fireman, Wellington). John Casey (fireman, Corinna), Thomas Morris (fireman), Frederick John Thomas (fireman, Wellington), and John MacDonald (seaman).—The reservists were exempted indefinitely. The .Waterside Workers' Union appealed f or the exemption of Albert o’’Brien a. F. Newton, H. Stowrrs, C. T. Lawton. P. J Farrow, H. Callaghan, A. L Summerheyes, G.- Lummis, A. Collinge. M. Byrne, G. A- Johnstone, L. Johnston, j. K. Belhammie. P. Wiehart, T. J. Hickey, A. McCarthy, and T. > W. Hart.Tho board reserved its decision. On Die appeal of the Prison Department David Dunlop, warder, Te Awgmutu, was indefinitely exempted. Brie Leoz Mair (Swiss), a private m the Medical Corps, due to sail in a hospital ship about four months’ hence, uplied for leave without pay to enable Rim to relieve his father, who was suffering from nervous breakdown and hadlv needed ft holiday.—Three months leave was recommended. ' . The chairman announced the following reserved decisions on cases heard last wc ek James W. Coard, case dismissed, with leave till February draft; Henry TL A. "young and Charles N. T. Dowland, Tax Department, exempted indefinitely; P. E. Duncan, "W. G. Allingham, T. B. Roberts and A. H. Fellow, Public Trust office, exempted indefinitely. ■ Decision was reserved in regard to the appeal of Messrs H. D. Bennett, Ud.. for the exemption of Joseph Wham, grocer’s assistant, Taihape. Twenty ot -their men, it was stated, had gone to the front. -