MILITARY SERVICE ACT

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13268, 25 August 1916, Page 4

MILITARY SERVICE ACT

ENROLLING THE RESERVE.

FORTNIGHT'S GRACE FOR UN-

REGISIERED -MEN

Some important announcements concerning the enrolling of the Expeditionary Force Reserve under the Military .Service Act are made in a circular which lias been sent to all local bodies by the Prime Minister. The Act is to lie proclaimed on Friday, September 1, and a period of 15 days theraftcr will be allowed, during winch every man not reg.stered under tiic National Registration Act must enrol under the Military Service Act, and to allow every registered man to notify any change in his address.

The circular, a specimen of which was received by the Piako County Council this week, states that all enrolment cards and notifications must be seat to the Government Statistician by registered letter, and for this purpose addressed and stamped envelopes will be obtainable at every post office. "As Prime .Minister and chairman of the Recruiting Hoard," the circular says, "I am apepaling now to each local authority in the Dominion to use every means in its power during the enrolment period—between the Ist and 16th of September— to impress on the men concerned the obligation that is cast upon them to one or other of ~iie f< icgoing things, and to empiiasisc tiic serious penalties that neglect of this duty will bring upon them.' ' The circular also refers to the fact that the Act directly and specifically casts on the man himself the obligation to enrol if he has not already registered.