SECOND DIVISION.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 2 November 1917, Page 4

SECOND DIVISION.

Drawing the Ballot.

Wellington, October 29.

The fir=t ballot of members of the Second Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve was commenced by the Government Statistician (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at 9 o'clock this morning when he started to draw on Class A (married men without children). The supervising Magistrate is Mr S. E. M'Cartby, S.M., and Mr J. P. Luke (Mayor of Wellington) is in attendance. The total number of men in Class A lis 15,292, and of these 5000 are being drawn. T:e ballot, it is expected, will be completed by to-morrow, and the result will be announced by Government Gazette on Tuesday of next week (November 6). In additioa, 1500 men, being accretions from tbe First Division (men coming of age, etc.), will be called np on the same occasion without ths taking of a ballot. The Gazette next week will thus contain 6500 names—being 1500 accretions from the First Division and 5000 married men without children. There will then be 10,292 men still left in Class A of the Second Division, which it is ».stimated will prove sufficient for another two drafts. The men now being drawn will not be required to mobilise tefore March next.