THE REINFORCEMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1872, 3 September 1918, Page 2

THE REINFORCEMENTS.

An announcement is to be made by the Recruiting Board during the next few days regarding the til'st ballot in Class D of the Second Division. It appears that none of the I) men (three children) will be taken into camp before April next at earliest, provided that the present rate of reinforcement is continued. The dale may be la,ter. The October, November, and January drafts (Forty-seventh, For-ty-eighth, ami .Forty-ninth Reinforcements) have been closed to recruiting as from Saturday last. No additional men are to be posted to these drafts. The February draft; (Fiftieth Reinforcement) is also closed to recruiting as far as Second Division men are concerned, but it is open to First Division men (ballot a ccrelions) and nineteen-year-old and twenty-year-old volunteers. The March draft (Fifty-first Reinforcement ) was opened yesterday to Second Division recruits, both volunteers and balloted men. The reservists remaining in Class C, Second Division, will be called up by Gazette, to be issued on September ISth. They are about 4,009 in number. The tit men among them will be posted (subject to appeals) to the March draft. The Class C men, with accretions from the First Division, transfers from the Cl Camp, and volunteers, will more than suffice to fill the Ma rch draft, and there will be a. surplus to carry forward to the April draft. The arrangements slated above could be disturbed by two factors,' firstly, heavy wastage in the New Zeal and Division, and, secondly, a, sudden increase in the amount of shipping available for the transport of troops. The indicalions are, however, that any alteration of dates will be in the direction of setting drafts back rather than bringing them forward.