COMPULSORY SERVICE
THE EXEMPTION LIST
Exemptions from military service in the Dominion., as recommended by Major General Godley, and adopted by the Government, are as follow :—
Persons who'qualify by examination asotfticers or instructors to the junior cadets while they so act. Members of the Permanent Staff and tennranent Force
Those who have been convicted of any disgraceful crime or found by any 'Court df Justice to be of a notoriously bad character(by decision by any Dominion Court of Justice ancLarry military court-martial j. The Governor may by proclama-
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(,i) Exempt from training in time of peace-allor any persons residing within an area specified in the proclamation. (.2) Vary or expend such area. (3) Or withdraw any exemption. The object is to meet the cases of far-outlying settlers who, on account ,of distance, could not, without great expense and loss of time in travelling to and fro, carry out the obligation under training. Should such persons ■however, move their residences into •an unexempted area, they will within thirty days .report to area officers. (4) The burden of proving exemp tion from such liability shall rest on ,the persons claiming exemption.
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Northern Advocate, 18 February 1911, Page 6
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190COMPULSORY SERVICE Northern Advocate, 18 February 1911, Page 6
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