THIRTEENTH BALLOT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 54, 27 November 1917, Page 4

THIRTEENTH BALLOT

DRAWING COMPLETED YESTERDAY. The thirteenth ballot under the Military Service Act was drawn yesterday, by the Government Statistician (Mr. Malcolm Fraser) -under the supervision of Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, Stipendiary Magistrate. Tlio COOO names required were taken from Class A of tho Second Division, and they will be published in tho nowspapers on Tuesday morning next. The drawing proceeded rapidly, and presented no complications, sinco tho whole of the Dominion was treated as one district. Tho men remaining in Class A after tho withdrawal of tho 5000 rcservistrf drawn yesterday number rather more than 4000, and they are to bo called up en bloc early in January. Tlio date of the first ballot in Class B (married men with one child) has not been fixed. The Minister of Defence lias announced that owing to the reduction of the quota a second reinforcement is to bo dropped presently, and it is possible that thero will be an interval of moro than a month after the January draft has been called up. In the ordinary course of events the first call on the Class 13 men would be made about the end of January. Tlio Gazette Extraordinary contain* ing the names of the men drawn in yesterday's ballot will summon also over 700 First Division men who have become available by attaining military ago or in other ways. There is ft steady stream of twenty-year-old youths into the First Division, and these reservists, unless they choose to anticipate the inevitable by volunteering, ard called up with tho first draft after thej reach military ago.