MILITARY SERVICE APPEALS
The Military - .Service Appeal Board for this'-district has been sitting for, '.ho last/few days at- To Aroha and Paeroa, hearing appeals from persons ballotted for service. The Board will sit at Thames to-morrow, when, a list of 21 cases'will engage attention. There is considerable adverse comment upon-the fact that medical examination is deferred till after tho appeals have been dooidod. Under this method the Board may sit for hours patiently enquiring into the merits of an appeal!, and having decided against the appellant the latter goes before : the ' medical board bo rejected. Commonsense suggests that tho time of the Board should bo saved by reversing: tho process. Let the 'examinations be first made, than if a man who has been drawn in the ballot isi found/to bo ui> fit for., service the Appeal Board is not' required, to hear .his. case. By' adopting this method the work oi tlie Appeal Board throughout the Dominion, would be greatly simplified. At present the Defence Department is placing the cart before the Horse, with the .result that progress, is. inevitably delayed.....
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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 10287, 8 January 1917, Page 4
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181MILITARY SERVICE APPEALS Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 10287, 8 January 1917, Page 4
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