§ All male inhabitants of New Zealand who have resided therein for six months and are British subjects are liable to be trained from twelve years to fourteen years of age, or on the date of leaving school, whichever is the latter, in the junior cadets; from fourteen years, or the date of leaving school, to eighteen years or in the case of those who on attaining the age of eighteen years are attending a secondary school then to the date of their leaving school, in the senior cadets; and from eighteen years or the date of leaving a secondary school to twenty-five years in the general training section or the Territorial Force in the case of their transfer to that force, and from twenty-five years to thirty years in the Reserve.
§ The Militia of New Zealand includes all the male inhabitants of New Zealand be- 1898W tween the ages of seventeen and fifty-five who have resided in New Zealand for a period of six months, and all these persons are liable to be called out in time of war.