MEN FOR SERVICE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1940, Page 4

MEN FOR SERVICE

PARTICULARS OF RECENT BALLOT NAMES TO BE GAZETTED NEXT WEEK. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In a statement last night the Minister of National Service, Mr. Semple, gave some information on the recent ballot, for overseas service. “The method of drawing this ballot," he said, “differed in one important respect from that adopted in the case of the preceding Territorial ballots, inasmuch as it was over the Dominion as a whole, without regard to military districts. The number of reservists drawn was 14,000, which is almost exactly 20 per cent, of the men available in Class A' of the First Division. The numbers drawn from the various districts were: Auckland, 2187; Paeroa, 325: Whangarei. 533; Hamilton, 862: Wellington 1795: Wanganui 967: Napier. 1091: New Plymouth. 649: Nelson. 966: Christchurch. 2063: Dunedin, 1088; Invercargill, 975. "As might be expected, the number

in each district on which the iot fell represents an almost identical percentage of the total available reservists therein, the greatest variation from the basic 20 per cent, being 1.4 per cent. Two further points of interest are that of the 14,000 men drawn for service overseas. 712 are volunteer members of the Territorial forces, and 6874 were previously drawn in one or the other of the two Territorial ballots. "As previously stated, men who were drawn in the second ballot and again in the overseas ballot (and who have not yet commenced training) will not be required to enter a Territorial camp, but will be held back to commence training with the forces for overseas. “The names of the men drawn in the last ballot will appear in a Gazette Extraordinary to be published on Wednesday next, December 4. Appeals against being called up for service require to be lodged by December 14. and must be sent to the Director of National Service, Wellington, and not (as previously) to the secretaries of manpower committees.”