MILITARY APPEAL BOARD

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3956, 12 August 1918, Page 2

MILITARY APPEAL BOARD

SITTING AT TE AROHA.

SOME LOCAL APPEALS,

Samuel T. Silcock, labourer, .Paeroa, alleged hardship owing to his wife's ill-health. He was due to go to camp in October, but asked for three months' exemption.—Granted.

' Gordon P. Lamb, timber merchant, Paeroa (Mr Porritt),. applied for an extension of time to enable him to adjust his affairs. He had been, posted to go to camp with the September draft,-and was medically examined last May.

The chairman pointed out that all married, men were allowed . three months' leave after medical examination. Many applied for more. Was it reasonable ?

Appellant said reservists' financial status was not definitely decided until after medical examination. His partner was "on fche road" most of his time. The firm's accountant had gone to camp with the 38th Reinforcements, still further hampering appellant, who had to initiate a successor.

The Board, after conferring, decided to grant leave until the January draft, adding that had there been a draft for camp in December Lamb would have been required to go then.

Chas. W. Miller, farmer, Paeroa, (Mr Porritt) appealed for Geoffrey Miller. He said he had four sons (volunteers) on active service. Geoff--rey is the only i-emaiuing son of military age. Appellant is milking 70 cows on 220 acres. —Sine die exemption was granted on the usual conditions. The Thames Valley Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. (Mr Porritt), appealed for Walter J. Herrod, first assistent at the company's Lower Waitoa! factory; also for G. G. W. Ranger, manager of the Lower Waitoa factory, and William J. Norton, manager of the Hikutaia factory. All three were claimed to be essential workers. —Sine • die exemption was granted in each case.

"William H. Mayson, fireman for the Talisman Goldmining Co., Karangahake, claimed he was engaged in an essential industry." The company's manager supported the appeal, saying 'Mayson was a good reliable .man who would be hard to replace.

The Board said appellant's position was rather different to that of gold-

miners,

Appellant said he had been raining for several years before taking the engine ■fireman's duties.—Adjourned on usual conditions.

A. T. James, solicitor, Te Aroha, whose case had been heard at an earlier sitting and exemption granted on the grounds that his business partner and a former partner were on active service;, and - appellant was allowed time to communicate with them with a view to arranging for a continuation of the business. Appellant asked for a further extension of time, until January.—Granted.

Isaafc Wallace, miner, Waihi, appealed on the ground that he is engaged in ,goldmining\ In evidence he said he was not aware his employers had to support the appeal for it to be successful.—The case was adjourned to Auckland to enable the company to state its case.

Kassel G. Worth, stampermah, Waihi, alleged' undue hardship owing to his wife's illhealth, and that he is engaged in an essential industry.'— Appeal adjourned f,or further inquiry.