RELIGIOUS OBJECTORS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 3

RELIGIOUS OBJECTORS

AND NON-COMBATANT WORK

The following regulations, under the Military Service Act, dealing with services to be performed by religious objectors, are gazetted:—. .The non-combatant work or services to be required of a religious objector shall be such non-combatant work or services in the employment of the Executive Government of New Zealand as may from tima to time be required of him by the Commandant, or by an officer of the Public Service authorised in that behalf by the Commandant, either generally or in respect of any specified religious objector. Every religious objector employed on non-combatant work or services pursuant to these regulations shall bo paid therefor at the rate of 6s a day (being tho rate of pay of a- private soldier of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force), and shall in addition Receive such lodging and Tations and be entiled to such allowances as are provided from time to time for private soldiers of \ the/ said force. ' \ A religious objector shall not be compelled to wear uniform.

A Military Service Board shall not allow 1 an appeal on the ground set out in paragraph (c) of section 18 of the Military Service Act, 1916, until and unless the reservist has signed and delivered to the Commandant or to the board an undertaking, in tho form in the schedule hereto, signifying his willingness to perform non-combatant work or services.