SECOND DIVISION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3181, 4 September 1917, Page 7

SECOND DIVISION

MEN. WITO FAilj TO JIAINT'AIN 7; THEIR CITIItDREN. A Gazette Extraordinary was issued yesterday providing that married., men of military age who are failing to support their' families shall not receive the benefit of tlfe classfication of the Second Division '.according to number ( of children, siS. previously decided. The Gazette sets out '.the following: _ . ' v "l. Notwithstanding anything contain, ed in tho schedule to tho said Order-in-Council of ,July"4, 1317, tho deserted child of a; reservist shall not bo counted as his child for the purposes of that schedule. . "2. 'Deserted child' means a child -whoso fattier lias for a period of not -less than tlireo. months next before the date of this . Order-in-Council failed without just cause to provide that .child 1 with adequate maintenance. "3. The circumstances that the marriage of a reservist has been dissolved, or that he ; has been judicially separated from his wife bv decrco of judicial, separ'ation, separation, order, or oiliftnvise, or that.the reservist Jias not the losal guardianship or custody, of- his .child, shall 110t.be deemed to constitute a just cause for"failing to prov'ide his child with "adequate ! maintenance within tho meaning 'of the'foregoing': provisions.-' The effect of .the new regulations, is that men not supporting their children will be placed in . Class A, tho sumo as married men without children. : This alteration has been made iis the result of representations to the Department with respect to men who are alleged to have deserted their wives end families. ' It will- bo understood,. of course, that the Government Statistician lias no official soiirccs of information of the men who will bo affected, and will havo to rely on being furnished by 'local patriotic societies, recruiting centres, >nd private advices. When such information is received tho Government Statistician, will talco tlio necessary steps to verify- it.