A correspondent writes a>l<inp the following question: "A soldier naving served at the front, returned to Now, Zealand, and been honourably discharged, i> he liable to lie again called up 11y liallot, and compelled to go to the front again?" The men who hare returned and received their discharge are men who have Keen sent home on account of wounds or sickness. fit men, who return on duty, are not discharged. Under the Military Service Act the men who have been discharged a'o exempt, i.e.. they come within the exemption provided for "men who have, whether before or after tne passing of this Act, been discharged in consequence of disablement or ill-health, fn.m the Expeditionary Force or ironi any other portion of His Majesty s Forces after service beyond the seas during the present war."
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3252, 4 September 1917, Page 2
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135Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3252, 4 September 1917, Page 2
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