EXEMPTED MEN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3040, 29 March 1917, Page 6

EXEMPTED MEN

PUBLICATION OF LISTS.

The annouiiceinent that a reservist' has been drawn in. the ballot does not necessarily . mean that the-man will wear the uuiform of a member of the Expeditionary Force. If the military authorities wnnt 100 recruits, they draw 300-names in order to. provide a. margin for medical rejections, exemptions and other wastage. They assume" that 200 of the men will not-be available for service, and this basis of calculation is understood to be proving roughly accurate in operation. The procedure was foreseen when the Military ". Service Act ..was, being; drafted, and, in,order thaVthere might bei no ground for any suspicion oF carelessness or .favouritism, provision, was made for the publication in,the Gazette of the names of men who might be summoned for service- and, then . discharged: or exempted. ' Clause 48 of the Act ieads as follows':—..-. -. .. : *. .'..'■ '"Whenever, by reason of the al- . lowauce of an appeal by a Military Service Board or by rsason of medical unfitness or, : on any other / ground whatever, 'a mar. has been :. discharged from the ; Expeditionary Force or exempted from foreign service at any time before he has served with that force beyond ■ the. seas, his name, occupation, and abode shall- forthwith be' published . by the Commandant in the Gazette, together with a statement of the .-ground on which'lie'has teen so , discharged or-exempted.".. ; • • iThe first list of;names under this clause will be published in the near future, and subsequent lists will be published as they become available. The effect will be to'put the whole, of the essential facts ''■ regarding each balloted man before the-, public in an official way. Every man. whose name appears in a ballot" list will be accounted for later either in', a .list of men entering camphor in one ,of the lists gazetted under Clause 48. If the man has not been required to,serve in the Forces, the reason will be, stated in accordance with the provisions of'the clause. Clause 48 applies-to balloted men only. Thfi names'of ■ volunteers who mav have been discharged from the Expeditionary Force.within.New Zealand for medical or , other reasons will not be included -in the published lists. These men- are stili'memßers of the JExpeditionary Foroe' Reserve, and so .are liable 'to be cajled up again.when, thbir names are drawir in the ballot. ■ ••:■