Obligations Ended

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 8

Obligations Ended

Consequent upon the end of the war, it would not be necessary for any persons in future to enrol with the National Seryice Department for military service, said the Minister of National Service (Mr. McLagan) today. Under the National Seryice Emergency Regulations, application for enrolment in the General Reserve is required to be made by male persons attaining the age of 18, and also by persons between 18 and 45 who arrive in New Zealand with the intention of residing here permanently. The Minister said that pending the repeal of the relevant provisions of the National Service Regulations it would not be necessary for any further enrolments to be made. It would also not be necessary for any reservists already enrolled to notify his Department of change of address.

pedoed by U-boats, bombed by aircraft, or sunk by mines, and the fleets of the companies regularly engaged in the New Zealand trade suffered severely. Among the other liners mentioned in the above list which were lost were the Empress of Britain, sunk in the North Atlantic on October 28, 1940, as a result of enemy air and possible submarine attack on October 28, 1940, shortly after she had landed her New Zealand troops in England; the Orcades, torpedoed off the Cape of Good Hope on October 10, 1942; the Ceramic, torpedoed in the on December 7. 1942: the Empress of Canada, torpedoed in the Atlantic on March 14, 1943; and the Amerika, sunk by U-boat in the Atlantic in 1943.