FIRST BALLOT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 239, 18 November 1940, Page 5

FIRST BALLOT

OVERSEAS SERVICE DRAW COMMENCES TO-DAY The third ballot under the - national service" emergency regulations, the first conscripting men for service overseas, will commence in Wellington to-day. The men are required for the Sixth Reinforcements. Although the date can not be definitely stated it is unlikely that the men will be required to start training for some months, the object of holding the ballot so early being to give the men. concerned and their employers the longest pos sible notice so that the necessary business arrangements can be made,

While every effort will be made to have the men medically examined as soon as possible, in view of the fact that medical boards will be fully occupied for some time yet in examining men drawn in the sec ond territorial ballot, it is not anticipated that they will be in a position to start on the overseas men until early in the new year.

The number of men to be selected. is 14,0001/ and the Gazette containing their names will be published. on December 4. Appeals against being called up must therefore be lodged by. December 14. A point to be noted in connection with appeals is that they must be addressed or delivered to the "Director of National Service, Wellington, for transmission to the Armed Forces Appeal Board, and not as in the case of the territorial ballots, to secretaries of manpower committees.