WAR REGULATIONS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17527, 10 July 1917, Page 7

WAR REGULATIONS.

HOME SERVICE MEN. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 9. .Tt is notified in a Gazette Extraordinary that the war regulations prohibiting the publication of matter likely to interfere with recruiting or with the effective conduct of the 1 war have been extended to the Cook Islands.

It .also is notified that the regulations made on June 18 last for the home service branch of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force have been amended by the cancellation of paragraph 5, and the suh&tdtition of the following:— “"Until the Minister of Defence shall otherwise direct soldiers in the homo service branch who are required for actual home service shall*be called up from those only who volunteer for such actual home se-.wioe, hub any person who being liable for service under the Military Se-vico Act, 1916, has committed an offence under the said Act or the Army Act, and who may sub T sequently be transferred from the foreign service branch to the home service branch of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force under paragraph 2 (B) .of these regulations, may he compulsorily employed on actual homo service. Volunteers belonging to such trades or occupations as may from time to time be specified by the Minister of Defence shall not be accepted for actual home service.”