SECOND DIVIBtS.it

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1917, Page 4

SECOND DIVIBtS.it

STASB*pST BY- IXBBKNCE R MINISTER. £ Wellington, inly IS, Addressing the. Second Division said i Q predictmg that the combing o.u.t and rq-examina- j tion of tha cfijnainwg PivAsiftn t reservists would jjroduce at least one ( reinforcement, and possibly two- < Tb?. classifies Pa* .< vision would b.e. completed until , August. He was confident of-the ; : loyal support of %e SgP9°4 Divifdpn, ■ and the. Gayernmant would do its ; best to relieve, them of their difficulties in respect of wives and other dependents. He could not give definite infojrruatiPP.,, hqi he t? sub ' mit a scbptdP to Parliament a% 1 as possible. The conference resolved «That the Government bo re.quested to provide the necessary for copipitting th? W.edical examination of each class of the ■ Second Division at least one month before % ballot for such clsss is /taken, also, that all 02 men, utter being passed as fit on 'Shall hat be required to go into camp before the expiry of three months from supJti y^xajaition,.*’ Cither resolutions, **— the medicM examination be made the deciding factor, as to the liability of the State, so that if a man is passed. a% lit by the exainiuing Upm’d' the State shall take' full responsibility from the moment of his parading for entry into camp, and that, in the event of his. death or disablement by disease. og by accident on, lejaye. in .eluded), he. % de.peqdmifs shall be entitled tq the same pensions and alloiyaiices if death or disablement occurred on active service, or resulted from his employment as a member of the Expeditionary Eorces. “That the Government' be requested to -provide such competent control qf th.e cost qf • living ns. \yiii ensu ? re, pvqipptiqn Uga,ins.t pensions grid allowance from being at any future time rendered inadequate by the operations of tliQ,§£ sgeking private proof oot 9? the necessaries of lifq, thq Goyeynnient to take such action as will result in the reducion of the cost of living, and that, allowances to wives and all' dependents 1 increase in the same ratio as the cost of living.” “ That provision be made by the Government for recording the votes . of all soldiers at home or abroad at all general fdflefipps apd referenda, a?d 0.0 all national questions, subI milted to the people for decision by ! popular vote.”- |' “ That State should provide a ■' legal representative in pqch town where a board, .sits, whose services shall be available to appellants before the Military Service Board free of cost to appellants.” “ That the register of all classes of reservists be immediately completed by the aothoyities, and be, taken to enforce the penal provisions of the Act.”-