COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 13999, 23 March 1911, Page 7

COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

\ PROVISION FOR REGISTRATION. ;, (PBJSS ASSOCIATION TXIJESIUM.) ■; WELLINGTON, March 22. , On April 3rd, a proclamation relating -r to compulsory military training will be ■■ issued. The proclamation, which has ', already been prepared, provides that r evory male inhabitant of New Zealand who, on the Ist day of March, lull, is between the ages of fourteen and twenty years (inclusix'e), and who » a British subject and has resided in Aew Zealand for at least six months,

«• required within sixty days of. tho aate of the notice to fill in a prescribed form of registration in respect « military training under tho Defence »»cts, and to post same to the nearest ■Ugtence office or to deliver it to any officer or non-commissioned officer of the permanent staff in the Territorial

orea m which the applicant for registration resides. Forms of application may be obtained at any pest office or »i police station. Any person to whom *r the notice applies ivho fails to take » any &tcp necessary to secure his regis- '- atl on as aforesaid, is liable to a fine .- of £o ; an{ } s jj a i! uc . t e ii^ibl Q for ; - employment in any branch ot tho Government service. The registration i°lP rw iuire3 the signatory to affix his lull name and address, date of birth, occupation, numo of employer, whether warried or single, and military service Of any). There are also questions as to whether the signatory is in posses- { sion of a horse suitable for mounted rifle work, and if he is willing to use it for military training; whether he is an apprentice, and whether ho is attending an educational establishment.