3492
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 125

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, do hereby, in pursuance of the authority conferred upon me by section six of the Military Service Act, 1916, direct that the Register of the First and Second Divisions of the Expeditionary Force Reserve and the district registers thereof for the purposes of the aforesaid recruiting districts shall, until further order made in that behalf, be prepared by the Government Statistician in manner set out in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. THERE shall be a Register of the First Division and a Register of the Second Division.

2. The Register of the First Division shall be divided into twenty-one district registers, each such district register relating to one of the recruiting districts hereinbefore referred to.

3. The Register of the Second Division shall also be divided into twenty-one district registers, each such district register relating to one of the recruiting districts hereinbefore referred to.

4. Each register or district register shall be kept in accordance with the card system, the cards to be arranged in the alphabetical order of the surnames of the reservists, and to be kept in cabinets containing drawers numbered consecutively.

5. The cards shall consist of the original personal schedules furnished by the reservists under the National Registration Act, 1915. In cases where no such personal schedule has been furnished the cards shall consist of the original enrolment cards furnished by applicants for enrolment under the regulations made in that behalf under the Military Service Act, 1916, on the 28th day of August, 1916. In cases where no such personal schedules or enrolment cards have been furnished the cards shall be prepared by the Government Statistician, and shall contain such material particulars with respect to the reservists so enrolled as is possessed by such Statistician.

6. Each drawer shall contain 500 cards, including such number of blank cards as the Government Statistician thinks necessary.

7. The card of every reservist shall be marked with the distinguishing number of the recruiting district to which the reservist has been allotted.

8. Duplicate cards shall not be prepared both for the general register of a division and also for the district registers of that division, but the same card shall be used for both purposes, so that the district register of either division shall consist of the cards so marked with the number of the recruiting district to which the district register relates, all other cards being deemed to be blanks for the purposes of that district register.

9. Whenever additions or withdrawals of cards are made in any drawer, the number of 500 cards in each drawer shall be maintained by the withdrawal or insertion of a blank card, and every new card added shall be inserted in its proper place according to the alphabetical order of the registers.

10. Cards placed in any drawer shall not, after the registers and district registers have been constituted, be transferred to any other drawer to make room for the addition of new cards in alphabetical order, but all cards which are added to the register and for which there is no room in the drawer to which they would otherwise be allotted in accordance with their alphabetical order shall be placed in supplementary drawers, and there arranged in alphabetical order separately from the residue of the register. Each such supplementary drawer shall contain 500 cards, including blanks, in the same manner as hereinbefore provided.

11. The registers and district registers shall be deemed to have been constituted so soon as the Government Statistician certifies in writing to the Minister of Defence to that effect.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.