COMPULSORY SERVICE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 354, 13 February 1917, Page 6

COMPULSORY SERVICE.

Ist and 2nd DIVISION ROLLS. The Hon. James Allen, chairman of the Recruiting Board, telegraphs the following message to us to publish for general information : — Wellington, Feb. 13, Pursuant !<i the decision of the Recruiting Board to publish printed rolls oi tnc hirst and Second Divisions ot the Reserve lor eacn recruiting District, the roll of men m the First Division of the Reserve lor No. i Hawke s bay Recruiting District, comprising the counties (with interior boroughs) ol Hawke s Bay. W aipawa. W aiptikurau. and l atangata, r.as now been issued. Uns issue will be. followed 111 due course bv tnc roll of men in the Second Division <>t the Reserve, lhe roll now issimn is a copy ot tne register, as compiled diiriiie - the enrolment period as provided lor ».-v the Military nerviee Aci. nauieiv September ol last vear. I nc roll will tlcicfcii << nt 1 1 tic nunc of m of the first Division who have sum tint d t < ith volu c 1 n 1 pci c tilt d tu tc smvm. 111 the Expeditionary I orce.

xiic J?ji-si; Division of the Reserve consists of mi'ii natural-born British subjects, not Jess than sO and under 46 vears ot acre, who are unmarried or wno married since tnc Ist Mav. 191 a. and have no child under sixteen bv a. nvevious marriage or who are widowers vvitn no enddren unuei sixteen, or v.no are divorced or judiciallv separated trom their wives and have no children under sixteen vcai- ot age.

110 Sec >1 llh 1 n < 11 1 t c f 1 other reservists.

The place of residence, so far as known to the Government Statistician at the date of the constitution of the recruiting districts (25th September. 1916) has determined the district to which a reservist belongs, and no transfer to any other district register can be made because of any change of the reservist’s residence after enrolment. Copies of this roll are being distributed to each post office,. de'oneij office. and local body recruiting committee office, and police station in this recruiting district, where they are to be available for inspection by the public. The object of printing and publishing these rolls is to enable every man of military age who is required by the Military Service Act to enrol in the reserve to assure himself that he is enrolled, and also enrolled in the division of the reserve to which I be belongs, and likewise to see that every other man of military age of iliis acquaintance is on the register. I The Recruiting Board hopes that local body recruiting committees and the public generally will take full advantage of the opportunity thus afforded to scrutinize these lists, as by these means it is hoped the roll for each district will be made as complete and perfect as it should be. If a committee or any member of the public or any official has reason to believe that any man of military age is not enrolled, or is not classified in the division of the reserve to which he belongs, the doubt can easily be settled by applying at any post office for the printed and addressed form which is there available. This should be filled in with the full name of the person with respect to whom the inquiry is made and forwarded to the Government Statistician who will at once take whatever further steps are neceTsarv.

So far as post offices, down to and including the fifth grade, and poller stations are concerned, it is proposed to place with them copies of the roils of the First and Second Divisions of the Reserve for each district as they are completed, so that complete sets of the rolls for the whole of the Dominion may be available for reference by any roan of military age wlm is absent from his usual nlace of residence, and who wishes to ascertain if he is duly and pro? perly enrolled for his own district. I