RECRUITING FOR THE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2971, 8 January 1917, Page 8

RECRUITING FOR THE FRONT

THE CALL FOR MEN

THIRD BALLOT TAKEN TO-DAY

The mobilisation of the 2-ltii lleinforceinents was completed on Saturday, when the last of tho district drafts

reached camp. Official figures are not yet available, but it is understood that thero is a shortage of something like 700 recruits for the * Dominion us a whole. The quotas/for the various districts had been fixed high enough tocover the accumulated shortages of earlier Reinforcements, and the position now is that these shortages have to be carried forward again. Neither volunteers nor ballot-ted men were, available in as large numbers as hud been expected. The mobilisation of the 2oth lleiuforcoments will be ' undertaken this week, and the military authorities hope that ihe position will have been improved considerably by tho time the last draft reaches camp. .Additional ballotted men are becoming available, anil tho district lists show a large body of volunteers, 1 set down for the present draft. • ' " > ■ Voluntary recruiting for the 20th Reinforcements, to be taken into camp early next month, closed on Saturday, and a ballot is to be taken to-day by the Government Statistician in order to provide tho recruits required to complete the draft'. The number-of volunteers available leaves a substantial deficiency, and a big draft will require to be drawn from the Reservists of the First Division. The results of the ballot are likely to be available for publication about the end of the week.

BALLOT IN AUCKLAND.

By Telegraph—Prees Association. Auckland, January 6. The ballot in Auckland City will operate for the first time to complete the 26th Reinforcements.

THE ROLL OF THE RESERVE.

PRINTED LISTS TO BE ISSUED. Pursuant to the decision of the Recruiting Board to publish printed rolls of , the First and Divisions of the Reserve for ench recruiting district, the roll of men in tie First Division of the Reserve for No. 5 (Wellington) Recruiting District, comprising the counties (with interior boroughs) of Hutt and Makara, it is officially announced has-now been,issued. This issue will be followed in due'course by the roll of men in tbe Second Division of the Reserve. The roll now, issued is a copy of the Register as compiled during tho enrolment period as provided for by me Military Service Act, namely, September of last year. The roll will, therefore, contain the names of men of the First Division who hare since that date either volunteered or been called up for service in the Expeditionary Force. The First Division of the Reserve consists of men, natural-born British subjects, not less than twenty and under forty-six years of age, who are unmarried, or. who married since May 1,, 1915, and have no child under sixteen by a previous marriage, or who are widowers with no children under sixteen, or who are divorced or judicially separated from their wives and have no children under sixteen years of age. The Second Division consists of all other Reservists. The place of residence, so far as known to the Government Statistician, at the. date of the constitution of the Tecruiting . districts (September 25, 1916} : has determined the district to which a Reservist belongs,_ and_ no transfer to any. other district register can be made because of any change in the Reservist's residence after enrolment. Copies of this roll are being distributed to each Post Office, Defence Office, and Local Body Recruiting Committee office, and police station in this recruiting district, where they are to be available for inspection by the public. The object of printing and publishing these rolls is to enable every man of military age who is required by the Military Service Act to enrol in tho Reserve, to assure himself that he is so enrolled and also enrolled in the division of the Reserve to which he belongs, and likewise to see that every other man of military age of his acquaintance is on the Register. The Recruiting Board hopes < that Local Body Recruiting Committees and the public generally will take full advantage of the opportunity thus afforded to scrutinise these lists, as by this means it is ■ hoped that the roll for each district will bo made as complete and perfect as it should be. If a committee or any member of the public'or any official ha.s reason to believe that any man of military age is not enrolled or is not classified in the division of 'the Reserve to which he belongs, the doubt can easily he settled by applying at any post office for tho printed and addressed form -which' is-there available. This should be filled in with the full name of the person with respect to whom the inquiry is made and forwarded to the Government Statistician, who will at once take whatever further steps are. neecssary. So far as post offices down to arid including the fifth grade and police stations are concerned, it is proposed to place with them copies of the rolls of the First and Second Divisions of the Reserve for each district as they are completed, so that complete sets of the rolls for the whole of the Dominion may be available for reference by any man of military age who is absent from his usual place of residence and who wishes to ascertain if he is duly and properly enrolled for his own district.