SECOND DIVISION MEN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 21 September 1917, Page 5

SECOND DIVISION MEN.

I [PAY AND ALLOWANCES. lEAL TEEATMENT PROMISED. WELLINGTON, September 19. perring in the House of Represents to-day. to the question of pay lllowanees for the Second Division Mr. Massey said: —"I want to tell pers that they will be very hard tease if they are not satisfied with Iroposals of the Government when come down." L T. M. Wilford (Hutt), asked her the Government would bring It its proposals without having a d-table conference with members lie subject. r. Massey said that the point had yet been decided by Cabinet, but nought that Cabinet would hav« bjection to such a conference.

DW METHOD OF CALLING UP. WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. e abolition of the recruiting di«s established under the Military ice Act was announced in a GazExtraordinary issued yesterday. Minister for Defence explains that step was necessary in view of impending mobilisation of the ; SeDivision. The married men, have classified according to the numof their dependants, and they are e balloted in their classes. It is nateqLthat eaeh class will produce for about two of th« thly drafts. If the districts and quota system were maintained in unetion with this classification ballots would be complicated withany corresponding advantage. The ;a system would operate in one th; then the authorities would have tall up the balance of the class en s, in the following month. No dist would gain any advantage from preservation of the districts unsuch conditions. The whole Dominwill be treated as one district for balloting of the Second Division. [en who reach military age after month will pass into the forces ject to medical examination without ot, since there will never be enough them,to fill a draft.