CARDS FOR CLASS

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16209, 11 May 1918, Page 9

CARDS FOR CLASS

NEARLY 28,0Q0 POSTED

Buying the past few hours the Qqvwpient Statistician's office has posted ovsf 27,800 cards to mop of Class C, Second division (married men, with two children), ptfttas Thursday's Wellington f'Post." Each recipient is warned to ensure a correct classification of himself. • For example, if a man has lost a child since he. wis originally classified in Class fl, hp must state this fact. Neglect n?akes the father liable to a penalty of £100.- Withijj the limits of the information in tho Statistician's possession cards have bpen posted to all -known members of Cflass C. If any man who belongs to this class has not received a pard, he should commuiiicato q,t oppe with the Government Statistician. In all pases the receipt of cards should jie acknpwlcdged. Air Fraser says that it is again necessary to attention to the following definition of children (for tho purposes flf clj^ifip^iiqn): The children whom a Jtssprvisi is entitled to count for the purposes of his classification are the following: (1) His own legitimate children qf any age; (2) his illegitimate children if lie has married their mother before tho first day of May, 1915; (3) children legally adopted by him before the first day pf May, 1915; (4} his stepchildrfii if he has njgrried their mother before the first day of May, 1915; (pj a spifi who has died during the present war while a member of any of his military or naval forpes engaged in thfit way. So is not entitled, however to count any child who has been legally adopted by any other person nor a 'deserted' child." A very Important point is that a child does not count for the Statistician's classification unless the father is pirpviding ade4nato support. If relations or other persons are wholly or partially supporting a reservist's child, the father is not credited with that oljilcl, withiu the definition fqr classification. The man's place is then in an earlier class. When there i 3 ti doubt, the obligation on the Statistician is to put n' man into an earlier" class. If a reservist feels that he has cause for protest he can appeal to a Military Service 13panj.