VOLUNTEERS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3223, 28 October 1881, Page 3

VOLUNTEERS.

[To the Editor of the Daily Tbleguaph.l Sii,'~As there seems to be a misapprehensiou aa to the liability of members of the New Zealand Volunteer Force will you please publish the following extracts from the Volunteer Act, 1881:— ACTIVE BEBVIOB. Clause 86. The Governor may at any time call out for actual service any volunteer corps, or part thereof, and every officer i' and volunteer, belonging to any corps so called out shall be bound to assemble at such place as the Governor may direct, and shall remain in actual service until released - hy the Governor's authority. No member of the volunteer force shall except with his own consent, or in case of emergency, be compelled to march or serve at any place being distant more than twenty ' miles from the head-quarters of the corps to which he belongs. . . The following is the oath as taken when *% sworn in :— J I(A B) do sinoerely promise and . swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen .Victoria, and that I will faithfully serve in the Volunteer Force until I shall be law- ' fully discharged. lam of opinion that the Government have only to declare it is a case of emergency, arid then they could compel .'; every member of the force to serve any- • where in the colony, as by the foregoing oath a member is sworn in to serve in the force, not in a particular district or corps, lam surprised to see by your contem* porary that some of the volunteers have decided to serve in the provincial distric of Hawke's Bay if their services are required. The least that could be expected of a volunteer is, I think, that he should •erve in his own district.—l am, &c, Sham Fight. Napier, 28th October, 1881.