SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 174, 12 April 1918, Page 4

SECOND DIVISION LEAGUE

REQUESTS TO PARLIAMENT. The Coutral Executive of the Second Division League- met last evening, Mr. R, A. Armstrong presiding. The secretary read a number of communications from branches urging the executive, to press the league's claims during the present session. It was decided to communicate with the members of the Parliamentary Committee that acted for the league last session, and the following • resolution was carried:— "That the Central Executive' of the Second Division League, speaking for the organised reservists of New Zealand, calls upon Parliament to insist that, before any marriod men are called into camp under the provisions of tho Military Sorvice Apt, the separation allowance for a. v'ife shall bo increased to 6s. per day, and for each child Is. 6d. por day (the soldier's deferred pay to he held for him by .the Government until his discharge), and further that a Minister of Repatriation be appointed and a special Department created to deal with all matters affecting returned soldiers. , ,?. The members expressed the opinion that tho people's representatives in Parliament should nob allow the session to be concluded without securing definite guarantees for tho future for the mom who were now fighting and were yet to be called up.

In view of the speeding up of reinforcements, it was resolved:—"That the Second Division League insists that under no circumstances r.houldthe system of three clear months' notioe after medical examination be abandoned, and calls upon the authorities to make the nece-ssary arrangements to maintain the system at once, if necessary bringing forward the ballots of future classes."