MILITARY SERVICE ACT.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1916, Page 8

MILITARY SERVICE ACT.

APPLICATIONS FOR CERTIFICATES. By Telegraph,—Press Association, Wellington, Yesterday. Mr. W. F. Massey, Chairman of the Ri-eruiting Board, forwards the following to the press:— It is still evident from reports in the press and from communications tha.t have reached the board that there is a widespread anxiety on the part of reservists foi some evidence of their enrolment in the reserve pending the issue of certificates of enrolment. It lias therefore been decided that the Government Statistician shall acknowledge the receipt of each application, and that such acknowledgment will be a temporary proof of enrolment, until it is replaced in due course by the certificate itself. It will be clearly understood, ot course, that once the certificate is issued the temporary acknowledgment card will entirely cease to have any value as proof of enrolment. Arrangements have been made to overtake the accumulation of applications already received, and it is hoped that within the next week or ten days every reservist who has applied for a certificate of enrolment will have received an acknowledgment card. Any reservist, therefore, who has applied for his certificate of enrolment and who does not get an acknowledgment card within the time stated above should at once renew his application.