A TIMELY INTIMATION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16718, 11 August 1916, Page 4

A TIMELY INTIMATION.

TO BROTHERS NOT IN ARMS

WELLINGTON, Aug. 10

"From time to time sincej:he initiation of the new recruiting sphenfe the attention of the Recruiting Board has been directed to families in different districts of the.Dominion with two or more single sons of military age, not one of whom has joined the Expeditionary Force under the . voluntary principle of enlistment. Of course it was impossible for the Board to take any action in these cases, as the decision is left entirely to the individual himself,;.but in response to numerous requests that some other steps should bs taken to bring home to such men a 4U© sense of their obligation to the State and 1 to theiv comrades and fellow citizens who are already at the front a section has been inserted in the Military Service Act, which empowers the Minister of Defence, if he is satisfied with respect to any family that -t consists of two or more brothers or 'half brothers who belong to tb,o first, division of the reserve and are not permanently unfit, to briing all or any of those brothers before a Military Service Board and ther,e show cause Avhy they should not be called up for service in the Expeditionary Force.

The Act having now passed and become statute law it is intended to bring tlnis section into operation as early as possible, and if any cases as

defined by it are still to b6 found when the Military Service Boards are set up they will provide the first business for these Boards to adjudicate upon.

"W. F. AIASSEY, "Chairman."