THE NEXT BALLOT.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1918, Page 6

THE NEXT BALLOT.

'j TAKEN IX APRIL OR MAY. (From Our Own Correspondent). Wellington, Feu. 4. The next ballot will be taken in April or May. This ballot will be in Class B. (married men with one child), and it appears almost certain now that none of these men will be required in camp until October. Nine reinforcements have to enter camp between liow and Octoher, including the draft to be mobilised this week, but four of them are already full and there are still recruits in hand, while the accretions from the First Division and from Class A of the Second Division, and the transfers from the CI camp represent a substantial number of recruits per month. This strong position is due primarily, of course, to the recent reduction in the reinforcement quota. Class P, men are being invited now to see that they are properly classified. I he Military Service Boards have received hundreds of appeals from married men who were called up in Class A and who were able to prove that they had not been properly classified. The' fault m almost every case lay with the men themselves, since they had no t supplied full and correct information or had failed to notify the Government StatistiThe ?, 0 thc i ,il ' H ' s of additional children. i he Class B men are being invited hv circular to save themselves and the (rouble ~v wUinff tM , ntion right before the ballot, The roll or the Second Division can be examined at any post office in New Zealand.