NEXT BALLOT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1943, Page 4

NEXT BALLOT

TO BE GAZETTED ON JULY 27 MAJORITY OF THOSE GALLED YOUTHS OF 18. LIABLE FOR LIMITED TRAINING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A further ballot is to be published in the Gazette on July 27, calling up for military service some 7,500 men, a majority of whom will be those who have attained the age of eighteen years since the last ballot was issued in December. The Minister of National Service, Mr McLagan, in announcing this today, explained that the call-up was for the purpose of making these youths available for one month’s camp training and for cut of camp training with the Territorial Force. The youths would not become liable for full-time service until they reached the age of twenty, or for overseas service until they were twenty-one. There was no need for appeals to be made at this stage unless there was a good reason why a youth could not be made available for a month’s training. Opportunity would be given for appeals when full-time service was due to begin. The Minister added that the youths called up would have an opportunity to enlist for full-time service in the Air Force, and as men were urgently required for the air service it was hoped that a large number of them would enlist. In addition to the eighteen-year-olds, there were a number of older men included who had become liable for full-time service, and if the employers of these men wished to appeal, they should do so at once.

YOUTHS OF TWENTY MOBILISATION FOR SERVICE , IN TERRITORIALS. POSITION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. It is proposed to mobilise for full time service in the Territorial Force Grade 1 and Grade 2 youths who have attained the age of twenty, stated the Minister of National Service (Mr McLagan) today. Many who thus become subject to mobilisation were released from the forces earlier in the year, when 18 and 19-year-olds were allowed to return to their ordinary vocations or studies. “It is fully appreciated,” said the Minister, “that many of these youths will have been studying with a view to sitting foi- examinations towards the end of the present year. University students, however, who have completed two terms satisfactorily, will be eligible for consideration by the University War Concessions Committee. University students, therefore, who desire a temoprary postponement of mobilisation, should obtain a certificate from the registrar of their university college and submit it to the secretary of the appeal board, who will make arrangements to defer their mobilisation until the end of August. Those university students who are at present held under appeal because they are taking an ‘approved’ university course will not be affected by this mobilisation. In so far as other students are concerned, arrangements have been made for their cases to be dealt with on their merits, upon application to the secretary of the appropriate appeal board.”