TERRITORIAL OFFICERS.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, August 8. An important judgment was delivered in the Supreme Court to-day in the ease of Lieutenant Cyril Russell Morris, who recently claimed the right as a territorial officer to rank as a commissioned officer in the Expeditionary Force, and sought a declaratory judgment that the Expeditionary Force constituted part of the Territorial Force established under the Defence Act, 1909. The Court was of opinion that a person who is a commissioned officer of the Defence Forces and becomes a member of the Expeditionary Force has no legal right to any command carrying commissioned rank in the Expeditionary Force, whether he becomes a member thereof voluntarily or on being called up under the Military Service Act, ana be is obliged to accept anyjosition to j which he is assigned.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1918, Page 6
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138TERRITORIAL OFFICERS. Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1918, Page 6
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