"ANOTHER BALLOT"
TERRITORIAL FORCE
"INCORRECT ASSUMPTION"
A Press Association message received from Auckland today stated that, owing to the fact that the ballot held recently to fill vacancies in the Territorial forces had produced an insufficient number of men, a second ballot of a similar nature is to be held on a Dominion-wide basis. Neither the date nor the number of men to be drawn is yet available. The statement is attributed to a military officer.
The Director of National Service (Mr. J. S. Hunter) said today that the assumption in the report was entirely incorrect. Nobody could possibly say what number the ballot would finally produce, for the appeals had not been heard and the medical examinations were incomplete, but all the indications were that the number of men called up in the ballot was about right to produce the number required.
The scheme of training provided for its being spread over a training season, and the first ballot was held to produce the men who were to bring up to war strength the Territorials who went into camp in October. The next ballot was to bring the January quota up to war strength.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 92, 15 October 1940, Page 10
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