REINFORCEMENT DRAFTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 132, 21 February 1918, Page 4

REINFORCEMENT DRAFTS

THE MOBILISATION DATES. It has been announced already by the Defence authorities that owing to the- reduction in the reinforcement quotas it was found possible to supply the recruits required for the Thirtysixtli and Thirty-seventh Eeinforuenients from the men in camp. The draft mobilised this month became, therefore, the 38th Reinforcement. With that draft, plus tho men under orders to arrive incamp in March and April, there will be sufficient men in camp to provide the leinforcement draft set down originally for mobilisation, at tho end of April. It will not be necessary to mobilise recruits for this draft, the Forty-first Reinforcement under the now numbering. Tho reinforcement drafts to be taken into cainp this year will be numbered as follow:—

Mobilisation No.-ofMt. dates. 39th March 5-9 40th April 2-6 41st (to bo provided in camp) '42nd May26-Junel 43rd Juno 25-29 44th July 23-27 45th August 20-24 46th Sept. 17-21 47th Oct. 15-19 48th .- Nov. 12-16 49th Dec. 10-14

Orders have been given, in accordance with a statement made by the Minister of Defence, that all Second Division men now undor orders for tho April draft must be transferred to the May-June draft, unless the men themselves would bo inconvenienced by the delay. This does not apply to married men of tho First Division at present Tinder orders to proceed to camp with the April draft. All' Second Division men cUwed 01 are to have their leave extended to the date- of the concentration of thn CI. draft in June.

Volunteers to Class B of the Second Division who may be classed A or Bl will bf> allowed to proceed to camp with any draft from tho Fortyfirst to the Forty-seventh inclusive. The Forty-seventh draft will bo mobilised in October. CI men of Class B are to have the same privilege of selection in respect of CI drafts up to and including the October CI draft.

Recruiting for the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Reinforcements was closer! some time ago. Nineteen-year-old and twenty-year-old youths can be accepted for the Forty-second Reinforcement, mobilising at the end of May, until that draft is closed to recruiting.

' The first ballot in Class B of the Second Division will bo taken, according .to present arrangements, early in June, and the names of the selected men will be published in a Gazette dated Tuesday, June 18. In the meantime there will be a. monthly list of accretions to the First Division and Class A of the Second Division.