THE SELECTED MEN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 60, 4 December 1917, Page 4

THE SELECTED MEN

CLASS! A RESERVISTS PALLET) UP NEARLY 6000

!A.' Gazette Extraordinary issued yesterday contained the names of the , Inen drawn in the thirteenth ballot tinder the Military, Servico Act. These •\ meii, 5000 in number, are members of Class A of the Second 1 Division (marriecl men without children). They are due to enter camp at the beginning of April. The balance of the men in Class Aj about 4000 in' number, will bo . called up in January. The Gazette contained also the names of about'7oo First Division men who have become available for service through attaining military age or for t.-iSoma other reason. These men will Ibo medically examined during the present and will be liable to enter camp iA January if required to do so. The total number of men called up under the Military Servico Act since .' the inception of, the compulsory systein is noiv 88,174, the dates -being aa follow: i , ' 1916. November, 1 4,000 "l', : ' December ...-. 3,000 . ,1917; January 3,600 February . 6,867 March, 4,503 'April ........ 4,812 May ... . 8,530 ttune ;.... 8,545 July ; 8,117 "September V.... 15,000 • ' 'October-;..,..'... 9,000 . November 6,500 December 5,700 ' - 88,174 ' The names of the men called up in the AVellington district and the neigh- , Souring districts are afs follow:—