THE NEXT BALLOT
CALL ON CLASS B RESERVISTS 9 CHECKING THE CLASSIFICATION. The next ballot, involving Class B of the fywrnd Division, is likely to bo held in April or May next. Tne Government Statistician, in tho meantime, is inviting tho co-operation of the reservists themselves ill checking the classification. After the ballot in Class A tho military service boards had to hear hundreds of appenis from men who were able to show that they had been wrongly classified. The fault in nearly all cases was the men's own, they having failed to provide full and accurate information regarding their dependants. There will he 110 need for nnv such trouble with the 1! men if each reservist makes a point of looking at tho roll of the Second Division, ao any post office, and informing the Government Statistician if the classification is not correct.
With the object of securing the cooperation of the reservists, the Government Statistician will post to-mor-row to each member of Class W a copy of the following circular;— "Census and Statistics Oflice, Military Service Registration Branch, Wellington, February 5, 191S--—The next class of the reserve created under the Military Service Act, 1915, to come under the operation of the ballot is Class B, and 011 the information available in this office you have been placed in this class. I am advising you of this fact so that if your classification is incorrect you may take immediate steps to have, it rectified. Forms for notifying particulars (M.S.A. —13) are available at all post offices, and should be used in all cases when supplying information for classification. Please lioto that failure to notify any alteration in the number of your children renders you liable to a fine of £100. Kindly acknowledge receipt.—(Signed) Malcolm Fraser, Government Statistician." The above is being sent out as a postcard upon which also is printed tho following information for the benefit of the reservist:—Classes of Second Division; Class A—Married men without children. Class B —Married men with one child. Class C —Married men with two children. Class D—Married men with three children. Class E — Married men with four children. Class F—Married men with more than four children. Definition of children: The children whohi a reservist is _ entitled to count for tlie purposes of bis dassification are the following:—(1) His own' legitimate children of any ago; (2) his illegitimate children if lie has married their mother before May 1, 1915; (3) children legally adopted by him before May 1, 1915; (4) his step-children if he married their mother before May 1, 1915; (5) a son who has died during the present war while a member of His Majesty's military or naval forces engaged in that war. He is not entitled, however, to count any child who has been legally adopted by any other person nor a "deserted" child.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 113, 5 February 1918, Page 6
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474THE NEXT BALLOT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 113, 5 February 1918, Page 6
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