THE THIRTIETHS.
BALLOT ARRANGEMENTS. V (Special Correspondent), v - Wellington, April. 10. The number of names to be drawn ia the ballot is 4812, or four times tho shortage.. In previous ballots the auIhorities have drawn three times the > 'irtage, but it has been thought desirable to increase the proportion. The medical standard, which had been slightly relaxed, has been tightened again lately, experience having shown that it did not pay on the score of efficiency to take men of doubtful fitness into camp for training. This change will increase the percentage of medical rejections! among the ballotted men. Then it has been found that even with the advancing of the date of the ballot so as to give' a period of nearly two months between the publication of the ballot list and the mobilisation of the draft, there- is delay in getting the full number of fit men into camp.
The Military Service Boards grant periods of exemption to many men, for the adjustment of business or'private affair;. These men will become available for training later, but in the meantime there is a shortage in the camps. The increase in the number of balloted men will help to overcome this difficulty.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1917, Page 6
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