MILITARY APPEALS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 5

MILITARY APPEALS.

LAStf ' MAN O>TTHB FARM;':

.;.,,. 'X. i-. '■■■t--TT~-i,,. i:<t a-. .:•„<> : At the first Wellington :■ Alilitary sSpv- ! vice. Board to;day. the .at^ng-dWuMnin, Ma: j\lcß4fcßi3n, wado a, statement m refer - | cnoe to the lust man tni the lai'i'ns a-nd .tho attitude of the board m regard to "appeals, a great many people hay© bden miaipd, and corta.iH.deygjj^ig individuals were taking advantage 'of the Government's declaration that production must bo kept up. He i^ead aa advertisement from a ceitauvaiewspaper, offering a property for sale, and commencing "be the last man on the land;" and he added : "I don't know whether the individual, who concocted that and sent it forth had tho impression: that it Syas^going to mislead any Military Service Board*" From $ho CQmme>iceme^t?his board *ad been guided solely by " its •order of reference ,'in section. lß9 .of, the, Military Service Act. •Tbey<*tfd%^ carefully; considered the matter of keeping up production. It was not a question ;pjj fiwljtaryvvawy.iqe or; production, but of military service ana production. TJio Empire had "to maintain both, there |oro thev.^iQard viewed .th.c. question of $ho last man on the f f4jfm from the staiidpoint of actual conditions existing. Ts<jjre had been numbers- of cases where there was, one farm 4at the outbrekfe of $'<MV l*ujtthat farnl^had^b^c J ome/,fo.urJpl•■ five fasms^by the ap. appeal board. In other instances people had j bought farms clearly to protect thgtnselves fxomf giving iheir.^services- to 'the Empire. f'-?he ■: board was indisposed to bo thus misled. %*' . OrfIUSTC<HU^pH. this da,v: / |> the -Mil|teiay to-<w.y. t¥e Ricoai*ton v School .CoiWraittee applied foi;, R. tt. North, tfce only' male assistant I Tii the school. Counsel pointed out that i the Board. of i^uQation deolhxecl to.-' ap- [ peal, .ah^i Ithe opn^tnttt^et .was foroe^ to ask for an extension ot ttnw v till the'^ndl [of^e^arf 'Hie ol«iirma.ii! (Mr Bisl^pj "comisol asked them to approve, of the. principle of Mve> coauin'tte© going over tlieVbaajatof, the EdtlQt^^n wln'ch was constituted' to *uthorisb > xji^e. inat-i-tiers ■anid •; Wihose;, i repi'»sentatioii& wWre bound to have weight. Cotin4el liwld ' that it was competent f or, tine Mj3it#iy Ser\noe Board vto'-tfrtd that thoßbaT^ of Edticat-ion had not proi>crly considered 'the TJialtor. '; Eventually, an extension, till Ootober. was alloAved.