Voluntary Recruiting.
To Close on Jane 23. Sir James Allen (Chairman of the Recruiting Board) informs us that the Board, at its meeting on Wednesday, decided that the voluntary enlistment of reservists of the First Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve is not to be continued after Saturday, June 23, when recruiting for the Thirty-third Reinforcements will close. The present position iB that voluntary recruiting is now open for the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Reinforcements, which are due to mobilise for training in August 1 and September respectively. This means that a member of the First Division who now volunteers for the Thirty-fourth draft is not due to parade for csmp until September. In view of the near exhaustion of the First Division of the Reserve, it is necessary to prohibit further voluntary enlistment of rnservists of that division, as otherwise they would be able to postpone the date when they would be due to proceed to camp until after the commencement of the ballot I'or Second Division reservists. Exemption will be made, however, in the case of youthß who are now approaching their twentieth birthday, which is the age at which they become liable for compulsory military service. A youth who desires voluntarily to enlist on reaching the mili> tary age will be permitted to do so in the month in which he reaches that age, and he will then be required to go into camp with the first draft leaving his group one month thereafter. Voluntary recruiting will still be open, of course, to members of the Second Division of the reserve.—Exchange.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 22 June 1917, Page 3
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263Voluntary Recruiting. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 22 June 1917, Page 3
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