MILITARY TRAINING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 91, 11 January 1919, Page 3

MILITARY TRAINING

; THE RL'LES FOR ENROLMENT. ■ Some additional-regulations under the Defence Act aire published in this week's. -"Gazette"- with reference to the 'enrolment of youths for cadet and territorial training. . The amended are -asfollow:— '•■•..' ' .. All persons as they become liable under the Defence''Act for training in the military forces are required to regfe•ter themselves-in^the arto in which th.ey reside. Registration foiyns are obtoilnable at -a,ny post'office, polico station, or Defence office. The form must bo filled in . and handed or'-posted, to tho Area Sergeant-Major as' follows: — (1) By boys who are 1 attending a primary school, or 'by the school authorities on'their behalf, in Mays of'the year in they attain or have attained the age"of fourteen years; or, if-they remain •rt -such-primary school beyond the age of fourteen; in May;of the year in which, they, will leave or have left such school.' ' • (2) By persons temporarily absent from the Dominion—within thirty <w s "f retii'Th. Absentees returning , and registering: after* the n.nnua.l postijDffs for v tho year have been completed fl[ill' in all cases be provisionally posted to units, 'arid '.'will be liable to undergo the prescribed training from the date. of_ such posting. ' ' ' (3). By Immigrants—'ivithin sis months after arriving in the Dominion, '(■IV.By persons whose provisional 'ex-, emption under paragraph 177 has ceased owing to the withdrawal of such exenioHon or chanee of residence— tmrty days .of such, withdrawal, or change of residence. : , ... . ~ (5) Bv all other .persons residing in the or,'in. the case of.boys belonging to a secondary school or other recog- . nisfd institution, by . the. Bchool or_ other authorities on . their behalf in May of . the yenr in which they will or have be--come liable. '.