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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



September 1. 191S. 



(c) ill the citizen forces (18 to 25), sixteen 

 whole-day drills or their equivalent, 

 of which' not le-ss than eight shall be 

 in camps of continuous training. 



In the Senior Cadets a whole day's 

 drill is regarded as being not less than 

 four hours, and a half day's drill not 

 less than two hours, and a night drill 

 not less than U hours. In the Citizen 

 Forces a whole day's drill is not less 

 than eight hours. The compulsory drills 

 required every year are : — Junior 

 Cadets, 90 hours ; Senior Cadets, 64 ; 

 Citizen Forces, 96 hours. 



SIX MONTHS IN ALL. 



Reckoning a day as six hours, the De- 

 fence Act only compels every male citi- 

 zen, at present, to give up 184 days to 

 drilling for the possible defence of his 

 country. This drill is spread over thirteen 

 years, during the whole of which time he 

 is more or less under military law. Ac- 

 tually many more hours than these have 

 to be devoted to militar}' service, for the 

 constant journeys to the spot where drills 

 take place occupy much time, especially 

 in the country districts. After the young 

 citizen attains the age of 18, and until 

 he reached 26, he is compelled to spend 

 at lease eight days of his holidays, or 

 his employer's time, in camp. Obviously 

 this may be a severe hardship to some 

 men, and some employers. These are 

 the bare provisions of the Act so far as 

 Compulsory service is concerned. 



PAINS AND PENALTIES. 

 To make the trainee conform to these 

 and other regulations certain penalties 

 can be inflicted. It will be seen from 

 the short summary which follows that 

 the military authorities have consider- 

 able power given them. It has been 

 freely stated that whilst these penalties 

 are necessary to have in reserve, it is not 

 intended that they shall be strictly en- 

 forced. Such statements are worthless, 

 for always, and inevitably, a benevolent 

 " general intention " must give way to 

 the " letter of the law." 



EFFICIE^■T AND NOX-EFFICIENT. 



133. At the termination of each annual 

 training in the Senior CadetAS and Citizen 

 Forces, each member shall be classified by the 

 officer appointed in that behalf as " efficient " 



or '■ non-efficient."" Those Avho are classifie<J 

 as non-efficient, either for failure to attend 

 during the prescribed period, or because 

 they have not attained a sufficient standard 

 of efficiency, shall be required to attend an 

 equivalent additional training for each year 

 in which they are non-efficimt. 



This clearly gives the company com- 

 mander much powder, as he is the judge 



of efficiency. 



PENALTY FOR EVASION OF SERVICE. 



13o. Every person who in any year, with- 

 out lawful excuse, evades or fails to render 

 the personal service requirec] by this part 

 shall bo guilty of an offence, and shall, in 

 addition to the liability uiuler section 13.'? 

 of this Act, be liable to a jienalty not exceed- 

 ing ono hundred pouiulo. 



la. Every person who. beinu a persoi> 



liable to training under this jiart. 



(a) fails, without lawful excus<', to at- 

 tend compuLsory drill or 



(b) Commits a breach of <li.scipline 



while on parade, 

 shall be guilty of an offence and .shall, in 

 addition to any liability under section 133, 

 be liable to a penalty not exceeding five 

 pounds. 



(-1) In addition to any penalty imposed, 

 or . . . in lieu of imposing any 

 penalty the Court may, if it think.s^ 

 fit, commit the offender to confine- 

 ment in the custwly of any pre- 

 scribed authority for such time not 

 exceeding twenty days as it thinks 

 fit, or for a time corre.sponding in 

 deration to the time wliicli in th<» 

 opinion of the Ck>urt would be taken 

 up in rendering the peiisonal M'rvic«> 

 required. 



DEBARRED THE CIVIL SERVICE. 



136. Every person who, wiiliout lawfuF 

 excuse, evades or fails to render the per.«<iaal 

 service required by this part, shall, unle.'js 

 and until he has performed e<juivalent per- 

 sonal service, be and remain ineligible for em- 

 ployment of any kind in the public service of 

 the Commonwealth. 



PRE\ENTING SERVICE. 



134. (1) No employer .shall prevent or at- 

 tempt to prevent any employee who i.s serv- 

 ing or liable to serve in the Cadets or Citi- 

 zen Forces, and no parent or Guardian shall 

 prevent any son or ward Avho is so serving or 

 liable to serve from rendering the perMm.il 

 service required . . providing tnat this 



section .shall not lie con.strued to re<juire an 

 employei to pay an employee for anv time 

 when ho is absent from employment for tbe 

 purpose of training. 



Penalty, one hundred poinids. 



Had the Labour Government re- 

 mamed in power the last paragraph was 

 to have been altered, and the employer 

 was to pay the employee whilst he was 



