MILITARY SERVICE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 8 February 1917, Page 5

MILITARY SERVICE.

BIPORTANT INFORMATION*

Per Press Associatiai. \ ,$ \ DUNEDIN, Feb. 7. • „ •* ® The Hon. Allen stated to-night, if «,:i r,egai-d to military service, that iii, r/ structions had been given to the D»' *-'| xence Department to formulate pro» ' v!; posals tor the classification of men ji •'-? Division 2. Before any men wer« " J taken trom Division 2, those in l>m- '.?. sion 1 whose cases had been adjourned sine die, would be reviewed by -the BIili« ' "1 tary Service Boaa-ds, and those engag- ' X ed in essential industries would be lett., .«"; Eespectmg the proposafa of the Pc- j ■ tone Borough Council, the Hon. Allen ,"? enumerated what the Government m r doing tor soldiers, and expressed the -J opinion that its proposals wiere better '* than the proposals of the Petone Coun- " v .oil.. ' Xt Respecting men called up in the T»f« ':1 lot who had not turned up for medical -^ examination or not gone into camp, ,1 - c Ho. n' Alkn a final ware! /A mg. Ihey had better come forward v ii voluntarily and ask to be medically ex- *'- anuned and sent into camp. The law. '■""- would bo carried out. The Govern-, '^ ment had not taken action so far be-i/ U cause it was not ready to act, and had not the necessary informatwn to *' i enable it to act. That information waa" *'* now available, and action would be '<£ taken in a very short ime.' Offenders '' 'i might be treated as "absent without " leave," or as deserters. In the latter ease the penalty was heavy. " ,^