CALLED UP.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1918, Page 7

CALLED UP.

THE LAST BATCH. (From Our Own Correspondent). Wellington, Feb. 10. The men called for service by special gazette yesterday included about 1200 First Division men, consisting cliieily of ,-ouths who are considered to have attained the ago of twenty years- The normal monthly quota of these youths is about 701}, and the reason for the apparent inereaso this month is to be found in the careless filling up of some hundreds of registration cards. The youths affected stated 1 the date of their birth as 1898 without giving the month. The Government Statistician, in these circumstances, has had to that tiiey were 'born in January and has proceeded accordingly Any First Division man who has been called up before his proper time, owing to his failure to state the month of his ! birth on his registration card, has the right of appeal. The production of his birth certificate before a Military Service Board will be sufficient evidence and the man will then be set back to his right date. It has been arranged, however, that youths who do not wish to appeal and at the same time do not want to enter camp before they attain their twentieth year, may attend for medical examination 711 trie ordinary way, produce their birth certificates and receive leave without pay, in the event of their proving fit, until the mobilisation of the first draft after their twentieth birthday. Thus a youth who las been called up now and who does not become twenty until the end of October, may be examined now and set down for the November draft.