SECOND EDITION. Star Office, 2 p.m. CATCHING THE SHIRKER.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3023, 18 August 1916, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. Star Office, 2 p.m. CATCHING THE SHIRKER.

ON THIS FIRST OF NEXT .MONTH

OPERATION OF COMPULSION

[rER TOESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, August 'IS

The Premier, as Chairman of the Recruiting Board, sends u s the following message:— It has been decided to proclaim the .'lirolmeut of the lir.st division of the expeditionary force reserve under the Military Service Act on Friday, September 1. 101G( and of the second division on the day following, namely, Saturday, September 2, 1916. lu-the case of each division a period of 14 days thereafter is allowed by -the" Act lo all men of military age (not- less than 20 and under 40 ■ years of age) who have not registered under the National Registration Act to enrol under the Military Service Act. or to men who have changed their place of abode since the registration to notify their new address. It, lias been found necessary _to - proclaim *tbe eni-nlmori 1 of both divisions of the reserve -simultaneously in order to protect the men in tbe second division.

The Act empowers :uiv constable, after the enrolment of the first division has been proclaimed, to question any man who may reasonably be supposed to be of military age and to detain him if he is not satisfied with his answers.

The Act also forbids any employer to employ a reservist who is not enrolled,

For tho protection of reservists certificates of enrolment will be issued on application to every man who is enrolled, and the production of this certificate will be a suflicient answer ta any constable, and also sufficient proof to any employer of the enrolment. But this certificate cannot be issued to a man who belongs to the second division until the enrolment of that division is proclaimed. Hence the necessity to proclaim both divisions, so that every man of military age may receive this evidence; of his enrolment.

The first division consists of reservists who are unmarried men or married men whose marriage took place since May 1, 1915. unless they have a child under 16 years of age by a previous'marriage, or widowers with no children under 16. or men who are divorced or judicially separated from their wives and who have no children under lfi years of age; and the second. division consists of all other reservists. During- this enrolment period the widest publicity will be given -to the obligations imposed by the Act on reservists and employers by means of advertisements in all newspapers and by posters, placards, and lantern slides conspicuously displayed

from end to end of the Dominion. The display of these posters, placards, aiid slides will he made compulsory as a war necessity by regulations to be issued under the War Regulations Act.