NATIONAL RESERVE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2688, 7 February 1916, Page 7

NATIONAL RESERVE

ANNUAL REUNION. _ The first year's service of tho National Reserve military units through'out the Wellington military district (which comprises, more than half the North Island) .expires oi February..29., Tho activities and' training of the reserve have been most excellent, apart from the active assistance it has afforded in recruiting, otc., . all of which has been done under purely voluntary (conditions.' The reserve'is now recognised as a voluntary military reserve under the Defence Act, and regulations placing the organisation on a uniform basis for the whole Dominion will come 'into force about March 1 next. At a special meeting of tho Headquarters Executive Committee, staff, and senior officers on Friday last it was resolved to mark the past year's services, 1915-1910, by a 6ocial annual reunion of -reservists, representing tho whole Wellington military district. The function is to be held in the Town Hall oil March 1 at 8 p.m. The members of the executive and officers present were appointed a committee to carry out the celebration. It is intended! to limit the social to members of the reserve, active and honorary. Special invitations will be issued to His .Excellency tho Governor, the Primo Minister, Sir J. G. Ward, Sir. Jas. Allen, and other Ministors, many of whom are members of the reserve, also the General Commander of l : he Forces, and the National' Reserve Commandants of tho Auckland, • Wellington, Canterbury and Otago districts, also ' sub-districts ' of' Marlborough, Southland- and Nelson. The reunion,being so appropriately at the headquarters, will mark suitably the new era for the reserve throughout the Dominion.