FIRST BALLOT
UNDER CONSCRIPTION LAW
PROBABLY NEXT MONTH.
BRINGING TERRITORIALS TO WAR STRENGTH.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 27. A statement that the first ballot under conscription would probably be held next month was made tonight by the Chief of the General Staff, Major General Sir John Duigan, while addressing troops of the Auckland Battalion of the National Reserve.
After inspecting them at the drill hall, Major General Duigan explained later that a ballot would be held in the near future to bring the Territorial force up to war establishment. Other details were not yet available.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19400828.2.30
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1940, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
96FIRST BALLOT Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1940, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in