THE SIXTH BALLOT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1700, 19 April 1917, Page 3

THE SIXTH BALLOT.

LOCAL AND DISTRICT NAMES. The result of the sixth ballot taken under the Military Service. Act from aiming members of the First Division of (lie Expeditionary Force Reserve for tilling the vacancies in the 30th Reinforcements, mobilising two months hence, was issued in the form of a Gazette Extraordinary at JO o’clock on Tuesday morning. The vacancies have been caused by the failure of voluntary recruiting to produce the repaired number of men, the actual shortage being 1,203. To meet this 4,812 have been called up, the purpose of drawing four men for every vacancy to be tilled being to allow sufficient margin for exemptions on various grounds and rejections on account of medical unfitness. Formerly only three men were drawn for every vacancy to be tilled, but in view of the tightening up of the medical regulations it was decided to increase the proportion to four to one, and this was applied for the lirsi time in the present ballot. In future ballots the proportion of Reservists drawn will be the same. The numbers of men drawn in the various ballots to date have been as follow: — Ist Ballot. Nov., 101(5 4,000 2nd Ballot, Dee., 101(5 .'i.OOO 3rd Ballot, dan,, 1017 3,(500 4th Ballot, (double), Feb. 'J7 (5,8(17 sth Ballot, March, 1017 4,503 (sth Ballot, April, 1017 4,812 Total 2(5,782 In the six ballots that have already taken place, 2(5,782 members of the First Division have thus been called up to fill some 8,500 vacancies in the 23rd, 24th, 251 h, 2(sth, 271 b, 28th, 20th and 30th Reinforcements. The First Division, which originally totalled 84,08(5 men, has also been considerably drawn upon by voluntary, enlistment. At (lie conclusion of the s(h ballot on 7th March the total number remaining in the Reserve was 55,410. This number has now been further reduced by the 4,812 men called up in the (sth ballot and the voluntary enlistment of First Division men since 7th March. The total number now remaining in the First Division is thus below 50.000. The following are the names of local and district members of the First Division, drawn in the sixth ballot, conducted on Tuesday last, at Wellington: — Barber, Weston dames, farm hand, Te iforo. Darke, Augustus, (lax paddoeker, can* of Mr Rowley, Miranui, Shannon. „ Burke, Frank, contractor, Shannon. Cammock, Willilam, milk-vendor, Awa Down.-, Foxton. Glaydoti, Harold George, llax-cut-ter, Grey Street, Shannon. Collins, Stewart Berkeley, stationer, Main Street, Foxton. Davis, Frank, stripper feeder, .Johnston Street, Foxton. Emery, Thomas, (laxmill hand, Shannon. Godinagh, Frank - , labourer, Moutoa. Hay. dames, bushfeller, care 8.0. Box 1. Shannon. Houghton, -James, caterer, Cutter’s Camp, Moutoa. Murphy, Thomas, labourer, Whifannui llax mill, Moutoa. Nisbett, George Ralph, farmer, Foxlon. Oliver, Herbert Thomas, cheesemaker, Onuia Downs. O’Regan, .John .Jeremiah, tailor, Shannon. Slimpson. Allred Henry, low-press-er, Moutoa. Swindlehurst, dohn Arthur, farm assistant, Buckley road, Shannon. Thompson, dohn Berryman, grocer, care of Walker and Furrie, Foxton. Wiekliffe, Samuel l.ewis, farmer, Shannon, Ilorowhenua. d. B. Thompson was a member of the Ritle Brigade, but owing to an accident, he was compelled to withdraw; F. Davis recently met with an accident at one of the local mills, whereby portion of his hand had to be amputated; Weston Barber has joined the Auckland Flying School, and is at present undergoing a course of instruction at Auckland: S. J>. Collins previously enlisted.