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North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13932, 14 July 1917, Page 6

C. * MILITARY SERVICE ACS.' CERTIFICATES OF EttRpLIIENT. NOTICE, TO ALL MEN OF MILITARY AGE, - CERTIFICATE of Enrolment lias now been .prepared for. cach.rcscrv-. Ist who is enrolled in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Reserve. . All certificates applied for have been, forwarded to tlic post-offces named in the applications. At the present time many certificates still remain unclaimed in the office of the Government Statistician and in various post-offices of the Dominion; Every reservist, therefore," should be in possession ef a Certificate of Enrolment. Any reservist who has not been able to obtain his certificate should at 1 once communicate with the .Government Statistician, stating his full name, age, occupation, and the post-office to which he applied io have the certificate sent, All reservists are hereby warned t'.iat ou and after Monday, ilGtli July, 101 'I they must have their Certificates i Enrolment in their personal possession, as systematic and concerted action will then be taken by the police to enforce thermovisions of section 4<t or' t'.ie Military Service Act.

Returned Soldiers and members of the Expeditionary Force \vhp_ jve nof in uniform should, for' their,.'own protection, have in their personal possession on and after the above date a discharge, from the Force or a leave-pass issued bv an authorised officer of the Defence Forces, as the ensemnv bo. Tr is further publicly notified that the cards originally issued in acknowledgment of applications for certificates are hereby cancelled, and that they will not k accepted by the .police as evidence of enrolr/.'lit. MALCOLM FRASER, Government Statistician. Wellington, 27th June, 1917. lI.'iGS

MILITARY SERVICE ACT. CLASSIFIOATION'OF SECOND -DIVISION. NOTICE TO MSBRVISTS. B Y Order in Council, dated the 4th July, '1917, the Second Division of the Reserve ha" ken'divided into (he following daises:— Class A.—To comprise all Reservists - of the Second Division who for the time being have no children, Class B.—To comprise all Reservists who for the time being have onTSiiflT" Class C.—To comprise all Reservists of the Second Division who for the time being have two childr.en' Glass D—To Comprise all Reservists of the Second Division who for the time being have three children. . . Class E.— I To comprise all Reservists of the Second Division wlvo foT the time being have four children, Clas3 P.—To comprise all Reservists of the- Second Division- who for the time being have more than four children, •- For the purpose of -the' classification tho term"' f pil(l |' is iised irrespective-' ]y of age, and includes a -child legally J adopted. before the Ist May, 1915; a " step-child if the Reservist married tho mother of that child before the Ist May, 1915, and an illegitimate .child of the Reservist if the Reservist married the mother of that child before the Ist May, 1915. A child 'who has been legally 'adopted by any other person may not be counted as a child' of liis natural parents. Any son of a Reservist who has died while a member of any of His

Majesty's Military or' Naval ' Forces engaged in the present war may be counted as if lie had been still living. . By a War Regulation dated the 4th July, ,1917, every Reservist .of the Second Division is directed "within ten days after Wednesday, the M!h July, 1917, to deliver to a postal officer A't any post-office, upon the, printed .form obtainable at any post-office, a true statement of the number of his children as on the above date. Nothing, however, in this Regulation applies to any Reservist who has already furnished to the Government Statistician, either under the National Registration Act, 1015, or the Military Service Act, .1916, sufficient information as to his -•children to enable tliat-Reservist to be i properly .efeiied as . ion Wednesday, the lltl/july, 1917. Every Reservist is required, within ten days after such change to notify the Government Statistician .by regi<-' tered letter of any change that tab s place in the number of his children after Wednesday, Any Reservist who fails to fulfil any of the above obligations or who makes any false representations rolative to liis children is guilty of an offence, and is liable under the' War Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly. MALCOLM PHASER, 11377, Government Statistician. • V ' ' " ' ' ,

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