MILITARY BALLOT
TO OPERATE IN CAMP.
The faryaehinjj fingers of the military ballot do iwt halt at the boundaries of the military training camps. With the men of the Expeditionary Forces who are in camp the ballot has no concern. But that is not the case with officers and men of the training and camp staffs. The names of these aTe now in the ballot, and if any whose services cannot be spared are drawn they will have to be appealed for, just as the railwayman are appealed for. In some instances this putting of so\diers' names in the ballot has a touch of irony. A number of officers and n.c.o/s of tlae training staff are returned men, while, many others enlisted to go away with early drafts of troops, and, because of their knowledge of drill and ability to handle men, they were ordered to remain in the Dominion. For the future it is understood that only unfit soldiers are to be retained on the camp staff, and those who have chafed at being kept back are likely to get their chance at last, though rather later than they had wished.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3133, 11 July 1917, Page 6
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192MILITARY BALLOT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3133, 11 July 1917, Page 6
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