TELEGRAMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 September 1916, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

MILITARY SERVICE ACT. Wellington, This Day. The Recruiting Board desires to give ;i fiunl reminder to men of military ago ' of the duties imposed 011 them in con--11 (.'Ctioii with the enrolment of the Expetionary I'Yicc Reserve. Certain men < s.em to be still in some doubt about their duties under tile Military Service Act. The postere, placards, advertisement* ileus paragraphs, and Jail- 1 tern slides have explained that the task 1 i f the Government Statistician is to i have a complete inventory of the mili- 1 tarv man-power of New Zealand. Ho has to ascertain the numbers oP men e' : gible. for service in defence of their country and their addresses. A personal onus is 011 every man of militur.v age, to be properly enrolled in the Expeditionary Force Reserve and to report promptly any change of address that may take place place thereafter. Eicli lvservist must give unmi.stakeable inlorniat 011 to enable the authorities to 1-oep in touch with h : .ni. l'eople who shilt about from one district to anotli--1 " must take all reasonable precautions to enable the authorities to eommunicite with .them without avoidable )oai of time. Vasrue address such e.<s ''care of post office." etc.. are not acceptable : they do not comply witli the Act. For their own protection Reserves must sippl.v for eertificates of enrolment. They are advised to be content temporarily with the acknowledgment cards. If they do not receive acknowledgment cards within a reasonable time jtft.er forwarding their applications they should <:it once communicate again with the Government Statistician. The Statistician's office

(' in working at high pressure on «&asks which have to be done satisfactorily (1 imd completely in connection with enrolment and next is tlie issue of certificates of enrolment. Everything will i, be done carefully and thoroughly in >- time, but all thingfi cannot be done at ?. once. Third in ord<?r of urgency is n the troament of certificates of rejection d or exemption already heard by numbers n of reservists. The original cortificates it should bo posted by registered letter g to the Government Statistician so that c the reg : ster may be endorsed with the l. fret that these reservists have previously volunteered and not been accepted for service. The reservists concerned, however, are advised to defer the posting for three weeks. Tf the documents are sent on now they must await their turn which cannot come for three or four weeks, until all other ls more urgent matters have received .attention. It is also open now to any j, man who has previously volunteered and not been accepted because of medical unfitness to apply tq the oom--1 inandant under Section 7 Subsection 2 " of the Military Service Act for his d : s<'harge. He should, in his nppliealion, 0 state number or date and office of issue s -of his rejection certificate. It is pro- " po.=od in everv ease, the reservist who thus applies for this discharge must go before a medical board, for re-exnmina- ~ tien. On the report of such hoard tlic commtindant will determine whec Hit or net discharge from the service y to be granted.