MILITARY SERVICE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 205, 5 October 1916, Page 4

MILITARY SERVICE.

A FINAL REMINDER The work of preparing registers or the First and Second Divisions of the. Expeditionary Force Reserve, under the Military Service Act, is now proceeding apace. It is just possiWg? that, the quotas of the new group jfecruiting districts for' g ments (the No> -Jpner drslt) will Debased on the men available in the First Division of the Reserve, but in any case, the machinery for taking a ballot, should voluntary recruiting not produce the men required, will then be in full working order. The Recruiting Board is very satisriecr with the manner in which men of niili tary age have responded to the proclamation and enrolled in the Reserve, but w-hile this response has been quite up to expectations, I have reason to believe that a number of reservists have not enrolled, and I desire to sound a final note of warning. Every man of military age who applied for his certificate of enrolment should now have received a card of acknowledgment; if any man has not got this card, it must be because either his application or the acknowledgment card has gone transit. His proper course is to at once forward another application to the Government Statistician, because it is not intended to await the issue of the certificates of enrolment before taking action in the case of men who, there is reason to believe, are evading their legal obligations. In view of the probable early application of the ballot, it would be manifestly unjust to permit any man, by reason of the fact that he has not enrolled, to increase the chances of citizens wh,o have loyally done their duty, and, therefore, it is intended to round up all suspects and ask them to produce an acknowledgment card as proof that they have applied for a certificate of enrolment. ; I wish to make it clear that it is not proposed to immediately take advantage of the general provision of Section 44, which empowers a constable to question any man who may reasonably be supposed to be of military age. Present action is to be restricted to specific cases where the Government Statistician or the police have reason to believe that:men have not registered. . • i ■■•■ •; On conviction, all such men will be called up for service with the Expeditionary Forces, under Section 33 of the Act. yJ. ALLEN, t Chairman of Recruiting Board.