SECOND DIVISION.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1917, Page 7

SECOND DIVISION.

THE REVISED CLASSIUCATION. (From Our Own Correspondent)'. Wellington, Juno 13. The revised classification of the Second Division follows the simplest possible lines. Tho Defence Department has abandoned the grouping of men with one child and two children, and also the differentiation between men under 35 year: and over 35 years. It has decided, after considering the point, to maintain the age limit of M years, though as a latter of practice a man who is over 40 will have to be particularly fit to get into the Expeditionary Force. The Second Division men are classified entirely to the number of their children, the men without children forming the first group, the men with one child each tho second group, the men with two children each the third group, and so on.

The effect of thiß classification as it concerns members of particular groups cannot be calculated exactly, since the date of the first call upon the Second Division men is still uncertain, and the proportion of fit men in tfhat Division is alsa unknown. But a calculation based upon the information that :s available suggests that a married man with one child will not become liable to bo ballotted before December at the earliest, and that the turn of the men with two children may come five months later. Some of the itatistics have been led astray by fho figures of the 1911 census, which shows a big group of men (over 20,000) married without children. 'But those figures included the reodntly married men, whereas for present .purposes the men married since April, 1016, arc members of the First Division. The first group of the Second Division will prove a small one.