SECOND DIVISION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3097, 30 May 1917, Page 4

SECOND DIVISION

THE PROPOSED CLASSIFICATION-

A statement vegar'oing the classification of tlie Reservists of tbe Second Division has been made by the Reruitmg Board in response to un inquiry from the Christohurch Citizens' Del auto Corps. The board's communication makes it clear that men are to be 'classified according to their age and the number of their children at the date of the gazetting of the clarification, probably several months hence. ■ . "The procedure to be followed in connection with the classification of the Second Division is this," states the board: "A. Reservist will be classified according to the number of his children at the dale when the Ordcr-in-Council fiiin« the classification is gazetted. Betore 'that date the Governmont Statistician mil, by advertisement and nonces in the public Press, call upon all Second Division Reservists to advise him of any change in the number of their children since they furnished schedules under the National Registration Act.. Pa; ing receipt of this advice, a Reservist will be classified on the information furnished in the National Register. i . ~ ~m i "An increase or decrease in the- number of a Reservist's children after thn -nzetting of tho proclamation will not affect for ballot purposes the position of the Reservirt in tho class in which ho has been placed, but it will be open to him to appeal to a Military Service Board on the ground that, when called up, he "as not in the class in which hw iiamo appeared, and it will then be lor he Military Service Board, if satisfied that his circumstances have changed since tho gazetting of tho Ordcv-in-Council, to order his transfer to his proper class. •