THE BALLOT LIST

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 131, 20 February 1918, Page 9

THE BALLOT LIST

YOUTHS WHO MAY APPEAL.

The men called for service by Special j Gazette yesterday included about 1200 i First Division men, consisting chiefly j of youths who arc considered to have \ attained the age of twenty years. The normal monthly quota, of these youths is about 700, and the reason for the apparent increase this month is lo be found in the careless filling up of soino i hundreds of registration cards. Tlio youths affected stated the date of their ; birth as 1898, without giving tlio > month. The Government Statistician in these- circumstances has had to assume that they were born in January, and has proceeded accordingly. > Any First Division man who has been called up before his proper time, owing to his failure to state the month of his birth on his registration card, has i the right of appeal. The production of : his birth certificate before a Miilitary ; service board vill he sufficient evidence, and the man will then bo sent back to ; bis right date. It has been arranged, ; however, that youths who do not v.'ish ! to appeal and at the same time do not : want to enter camp before they attain J their twentieth year may attend for medical examination in the ordinary \ way, produce their birth certificates, i and receive leave without pay, in the even I of their proving fit, until the ; mobilisation of the first draft after their twentieth birthday. Thus'a youth who hao been called now and who does not become twenty until the end ot II October may be examined now and set down fot the November draft. The Government Statistician advises that since) publication of yesterday's Gazette the following reservists have [ furnished evidence that they ure not ret twenty years of ago :— t Leonard Harry Daniell, cadet, 49 Kugby Street, Wellington; I Raymond Thatcher Esau, ironraongci, 71 Denvent Street, Island Bay. John Joseph. Hopkirk, stationery wire- | houseman, 104 Majoribauks Street, R Wellington.' William Patrick Linehan, cadet, -iU Queen Street, Petone. Cedric Gladstone'Marple, sorter, 0 Dec Street, Island Bay. Neil Ronaldson, student, 7 Park Street, Thorndon, Wellington. George Uliller, hawk clerk, Bank of New Zealand, Pahiaftia. \ In the case of Eonaldson, Mr. Fraser has ascertained that he voluntarily oifered his services, \but was rejected.