WRONGLY CLASSED.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1917, Page 6

WRONGLY CLASSED.

■MARRIED MEN IN THE BALLOT. Wellington, Friday. Second Division ballot lists have to he very thoroughly revised before the military authorities can secure any guarantee that when they call for, say five thousand names, that all those men will be eligible for service in the class in which they appear. The last ballot produced live hundred appeals from men who proved that they had been wrongly classed, nn-.l so general is this fault—due to neglect to provide the Government Statistician with up-to-date information regarding children —that a special poster is to be circulated throughout Now Zealand calling attention to reservists' duty to notify all changes which will affect his classification. Class A of the Second Division commenced with 20,01)0, but reclassification pulled this down to 15,000 out of which 3609 names remain to be gazetted on January 0. As the whole roll of Second Division reservists has just been completed, it is possible to give the actual categories remaining to he called up. They are as follows: — Class B 21.702 Class C 20,305 Class D •. ..v.... 10,025 Class E 11,654 Class F ..,. 12,801

These figures are liable to variation according'to the changed circumstances of reservists. They show exactly what the country has left to call upon 'for military service, in addition to the youths who are reaeiTmg military age, numbering between eight and nine thousand per annum.