SECOND DIVISION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17523, 5 July 1917, Page 4

SECOND DIVISION.

FINAL CLASSIFICATION.

"GAZETTE" ANNOUNCEMENTS.

[Per PnEss Association,] WELLINGTON, July 4,

The final classification of the Second. Division of the Expeditionary Force reserve was notified in the form of a' Gazette Extraordinary this afternoon.* The division is divided into six classes according to number of children, as previously announced, with the important addition of the phrase "for the time being." In other words, provision is made for altering the classification of a reservist in accordance with any increase in the number of his children or depletion by death. _The "Gazette" also defines the position of a reservist in. relation to illegitimate children and directs that any* reservist who has lost a son a® a result of service in his Majesty's naval or military forces during the present war shall have that son counted as if ho still were living. A further Gazette Extraordinary issued at tho same time makes it compulsory on Second Division reservists to notify any change in their condition according to the number of their children The object of that is" to enable the Government Statistician to determine the classes to which reservists belong for the time being.