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The members of the Tribunal which dealt with these cas08 comprised, in addition to the Chairman (Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., 0.B.E.) Colonel Passby and Commander Beckwith, no less than five prominent members of the Commercial Community.
3.
Messrs. Butterfield and Swire gave notice
of appeal against this decision and on the 25th. instant the
appeal was heard by the Governor-in-Council with 3 Assessors
(Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., Mr. N. J. Stabb, and Mr. C. H. P.
Hay, Acting Manager of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, appointed temporarily in the place of Mr. P. H. Holyoak absent from the Colony).
After an exhaustive hearing at which I
read the message from the Shipping Controller communicated
in your code telegram of the 20th. instant, the Council
decided as follows:-
Mr. Johnstone
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Mr. McIntyre
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Mr. Rawlinson
No exemption: unanimously.
No exemption. The three Assessors,
Sir C. P. Chater and the Director
of Public Works voting for 3
mon the exemption.
No exemption. In this case the
Assessors, and all the Members of
Council, except His Excellency the
General Officer Commanding, advig-
-ed an exemption for 3 months.
I felt myself however unable conscientiously to accept the
advice of the majority on the following grounds:-
(a). The youth of the alerk in question.
(b). His subordinate position in which he can
without doubt be satisfactorily replaced by
one of the many candidates offering locally to replace men released for His Majesty's
Armies. This list is an extraordinarily strong
one
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