GENERAL RESERVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 206, 30 August 1940, Page 3

GENERAL RESERVE.

LEGAL OBLIGATIONS.

WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS.

WELLINGTON, this day,

The responsibilities of those who qualify for membership of the first division of the general reserve were outlined in a statement made to-day by the Minister of National Service, the Hon. R, Semp'e, who emphasised the legal obligations of both reservists and their employers.

The work of the preparation, checking and dispatch of certificates of enrolment of members of the first division of the general reserve, said Mr. Semple, was a task of some magnitude. They numbered some 93,000, but a staff of over 100 typists and approximately an equal number of other workers was able to complete the job between the morning of Wednesday, August 21, and the Mid of that week, and the great bulk of them should be in the hands of the reservists concerned.

It was found necessary to hold more than 100 hbek, however, said Mr. Semple. because of insufficient or illegible addresses. The Minister stressed the fact that an employer committed an offence if he employed for more than seven days a reservist of the enrolled clas, who was not duly enrolled, nnd any reservist of the first division who was not enrolled was liable not only to severe penalties, but might also, on prosecution and conviction, be transferred to the armed forces without participation in the ballot.— (Press Assn.)