THE SECOND DIVISION.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1917, Page 7

THE SECOND DIVISION.

VOLUNTARY ENLISTMENT. HOW THE CLASSES WILL PAN OUT. (From Our Special Correspondent). Wellington Nov. 5. Voluntary enlistment is to be confined now to nineteen-year-old and twenty-year-old recruits and to classes A and B of the Second Division. This announcement is made in a Headquarters circular about to be issued. Married men with two or more children are not to be accepted for service at present, though they will be given a chance to enlist voluntarily before they arc called up in the ballot.

The circular provides that all Second Division recruits, whether voluntarily enlisted or balloted, are to have twelve "weeks' leave without pay after medical examination, before the date of concentration for the purpose of -proceeding to camp. The first draft of Second Division men (those drawn in the recent ballot) are to enter camp during the period |':March 0-15, and subsequent, drafts at four-weekly intervals. The first men of class B are likely to enter camp during the mobilisation period May 28-Jnne 1 next. The turn of the Class C men is likely to come in the period - September 17-21. The Class C men are expected to make four drafts and so will last until the end of the year 1918. Second Division men who fail to enrol as members of the Expeditionary Force Reserve will be liable to be sent into camp immediately after medical examination, either for foreign service or home service, according to their degree of fitness. Men who fail to report for medical examination on the dates ordered af■tev being ballotted will forfeit their privilege of twelve weeks' leave .before mobilisation unless they can prove that they were absent through causes .beyond their control. They will be examined subsequently and the leave will be dated hack to the day originally fixed for the [examination.