SECOND BALLOT
MEN FOR TERRITORIAL SERVICE TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK. SOME 34.000 TO BE CALLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Minister of National Service (Mr Semple) announced today that a second ballot to select men for Territorial service would be held next week, commencing on October 21. A “Gazette” would be issued on Wednesday, November 6. Men drawn in the first ballot were required to build up the war establishment of those Territorial units which were due to complete their intensive training before the end of December. The second ballot was necessary to complete units which are to commence training early in January. The number to be drawn in this ballot is 34,000, which, after appeals and medical examinations and transfers to overseas forces, should make available 10,000 men for training from January to March, 1941. Mr Semple added that as soon as possible after the Territorial ballot, a ballot for overseas service will be held for the Sixth Reinforcements.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1940, Page 6
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163SECOND BALLOT Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1940, Page 6
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