SECOND BALLOT
FOR EXPEDITIONARY FORCE START MADE ON DRAWING TODAY. NAMES TO BE GAZETTED IN MARCH. ißy Telegraph— Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The second ballot for the Expeditionary Force commenced today and should be completed by tomorrow. Nineteen thousand men are to be selected. compared with 14.000 in the first ballot. On the results obtained in Territorial ballots, more than half of those selected should be fit for service. The ballot is taken on Dominion basis, and not a district, and Mr. Stilwell. S.M.. is supervising the drawing of names. These will be gazetted on the evening of March 4 and consequently will be published throughout, the Dominion on March 5. It is understood that the 33.000 men drawn in two ballots will be a good many thousands short of half the total number of men in their class.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1941, Page 6
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140SECOND BALLOT Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1941, Page 6
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