New Zealand Gazette – 1916 – No. 125

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✨ Military Service Regulations

Num. 125. 3491

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1916

Regulations as to Registers of Reservists under the Military Service Act, 1916.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of September, 1916.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section six of the Military Service Act, 1916, it is enacted that after the enrolment of either division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve has been proclaimed and directed the Government Statistician shall prepare a register of that division in such manner as the Governor in Council directs:

And whereas by section thirty-two of the said Act it is enacted that the Minister of Defence may by order signed by him divide New Zealand into such recruiting districts as he thinks fit, and that while any such order remains in force the register of any division of the Reserve shall be divided into as many district registers as there are recruiting districts:

And whereas by Proclamation made and gazetted on the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, the enrolment of the First Division of the Reserve was proclaimed and directed:

And whereas by Proclamation made with the approval of the Executive Council, and gazetted on the second day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, the enrolment of the Second Division of the Reserve was proclaimed and directed:

And whereas by order made and signed by the Minister of Defence, and dated the twenty-fifth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, the said Minister divided New Zealand into twenty-one recruiting districts, and the said order is still in force:

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1916, No 125

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🛡️ Regulations for Registers of Reservists under Military Service Act, 1916

Domain🛡️ Defence & Military
Dated26 September 1916
KeywordsMilitary Service Act, Reservists, Registers, Recruiting Districts
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Liverpool, Governor

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