ENROLLING THE SECOND DIVISION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3194, 19 September 1917, Page 4

ENROLLING THE SECOND DIVISION

abolition of recruiting DISTRICTS.

A Gazette Extraordinary was issued yesterday containing several ' proclamations aud amending certain regulations uuder tho Military Service Act. For the purposa of enabling men ot the Second Division to be selected from a single register for the whole ot New Zealand instead of from district registers as in the case of the First Division, the abolition of the various recruiting districts established itfider the Military Service Act is notified by the Minister of Defence. . 1 The regulations providing for tho attestation' of voluntary recruits and compulsory recruits are likewise revoked, and the following substituted: "Every voluntary recruit shall at tha time when he takes the oath of allegiance under the Expeditionary Forces Act, 1915, be attested in the presenco of an attesting officer in tho form set out m tha I'irst Schedule. ' , "Every compulsory recruit rhall, before being first received into a camp of military training, or forthwith thereafter, be attested in the presence of an attesting officer in tha form set out m the Second Schedule. , • "Every compulsory recruit may, it no 60 desires, take the oath of allegiance and'be attested in . the same manner »s a voluntary recruit, instead of in the manner set forth in the Second Schedule. "Every compulsory recruit who retuses or fails, when required to do so by any officer under whose command he w. to appear before an attesting officer and there to answer all questions submitted to him and be attested in accordance with these regulations shall he of disobedience to the lawful commands of the officer under whose lomniand lie so is, and shall bo hable under the Army Act accordingly." The regulations regarding "nodical examination are amended by the revocation of Clauses 15 and 16, and the substitution of the following therefor-.— 15 Every report of a Medical Board ' shall classify the recruit m one or other of the following six classes: A. Men fit for active service beyond the 6eaa. . , B1 Men fit for active service bejond the seas if they, undergo special medical, surgical, or dental treatment (after operation in camp or public hospital). . B' Mon fit for active service beyond 'the seas if they undergo specified medical, surgical, or dental treatment (after recovery at home). CI. Men likely to befiomc fit for active servic# beyond the seas alter special trtining. C 2. Men permanently unfit for active .' service beyond the seas, out fit for service of nature in New Zealand in connection with or for the-purpose of the present war D Men permanently unfit either for active service beyond the seas, or for any service in New Zealand in connection with or for the purposa ' of the present war.