New Zealand Gazette – 1917 – No. 104

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✨ Military Service Proclamation

Num. 104. 2509

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1917.

Extension of Military Service Act, 1916, to Natives.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section fifty of the Military Service Act, 1916, that the Governor may by Proclamation extend the provisions of that Act, with such modifications as he thinks necessary, so as to provide for the compulsory calling-up of Natives for military service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the authority so conferred upon me by the said Act, proclaim that the Military Service Act, 1916, is hereby extended so as to apply to Natives within the meaning of the Native Land Act, 1909, in the same manner as it applies to men who are not Natives, but subject to the modifications hereinafter set forth, and that Natives shall be liable accordingly to be called up for military service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; and, in pursuance of the same authority, I do hereby further proclaim that in its application to Natives the said Act shall be subject to the following modifications:—

There is hereby established in connection with the Expeditionary Force a reserve called the Native Expeditionary Force Reserve, and such reserve shall consist of all Natives who if they were not Natives would be members of the Expeditionary Force Reserve as constituted in accordance with the said Act.
The said Act shall extend and apply to the Native Expeditionary Force Reserve in the same manner as to the Expeditionary Force Reserve as constituted by the said Act, and those two reserves shall for all purposes be deemed to be separate and distinct, so that every reference in the said Act to the reserve shall be

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🛡️ Extension of Military Service Act to Natives

Domain🛡️ Defence & Military
Dated26 June 1917
KeywordsMilitary Service Act, Natives, Proclamation, Compulsory Service, New Zealand Expeditionary Force
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Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor

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