MASTERTON INDIGNANT

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15752, 20 November 1916, Page 8

MASTERTON INDIGNANT

MARRIED MAX "CALLED UP." PRESUMABLY A HOAX. {?RESS ASSOCIATION TXLEGRAH.) MASTERTON, November IS. A good deal of indignation is expressed locally at tho fact that men. who married previously to May, 1915, have been put in the ballot for tho Ist Division.. A local man -who has been married several years, and who has one child, yesterday received noticc to report within ton days at camp, having been drawn in the ballot. There is great resentment at the possibility of married men with families being called up while so many single men without dependents are available in the district. [The position in regard to men married prior to May, 1915, is .that where there has been any doubt as to the date of their marriage, they have been placed in the Ist Division. In all cases of doubt the Government Statistician has placed the Reservist in the Ist Division, from which he can be removed - upon placing before the Military Service Board evidence that will show thai he has been wrongly classified. The Government Statistician also has power to correct crror 6 in the Register where the correction does not involve the exercise of a judicial function. It would appear (says Saturday's "Wellington "Post") that the case referred to in the above message is a hoax, since the ballot closed only this morning, and before any notices are served the list must be checked to preclude the possibility of error.]