MILITARY SERVICE BOARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 25

MILITARY SERVICE BOARD.

SITTING AT ROXBURGH. The Otago Military Service Board—" Messrs H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., A D. Bell, and E. Kellett—sat at Roxburgh on Friday afternoon. Captain Free was the military representative. Stephen Francis Whelan (farmer, Koxburgh), for whom Mr Moyle appeared, asked for exemption on tho ground of undue hardship. He was managing a run for his father, and, as some of it was very ' high country, it required a young, active man to look after, the sheep—To Captain. Free: He had a returned brother, but he knew nothing of farming.—After some con. sidoration the board decided to defer th 4 matter for inquiry. _^ Philip W. R. Gray (farmer. Miner s Flat) hod an appeal entered on his behalf by Eleanor Jano Gray (his mother.), who handed in a quantitv of documentary cv:< deuce, showing that the young man waa necessary to the working of tho property.— Appellant stated that her husband was an invalid, and tho only sons sho had were* tho one appealed for and a bo.* of 10.— Conditional exemption was granted. Lauchlan Shaw (Roxburgh) submitted evidence showing that he had a wife and two children, and was placed in C Class of. the Second Division. James Galvin (Roxburgh) had hie appeal allowed, and was placed in F Class of tho Second Division.