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2nd. February, 1917.

The Un-official Members of the Executive and

Legislative Councils strongly advise that the Government appoint a Board, with an un-official majority of members, and with the following functions and powers:-

brought

(1) To hear cases voluntarily before it of men between the

ages of 18 and 35 who have been medically certified as

fit for active service in the war and who desire to

leave the Colony for that purpose, but whose employers think they cannot be spared or who for any other reason have difficulty in going;

(2) to advise in the said cases upon the course which the

Board considers ought to be taken;

(3) to grant certificates in the said cases to those men

whom the Board considers indispensable in the interests

of the Colony for the civil work on which they are engaged, or who are detained by the Military

Authorities for local defence.

(8d.) C. P. Chater

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E. H.

Sharp

H. E. Pollock

E. Shellim

P. H. Holyoak

C. I. Anton