SECOND DIVISION.
THE __KST BAIXOT. IN OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Sta_,"r WELLINGTON, this day. Sir James Allen stated definitely this morning that it had been decided that no more voluntary recruits for the Expeditionary Forces are to be accepted with the exception of young men reaching the age of twenty. These, according to the Act, wiU be allowed till they are twenty-one years of age to volunteer. The decision now reached means that all men of the Second Division wfll he called up solely through the medium of the ballot. The Defence Minister now estimates that the First Division will last through. July and August, but will not provide the whole of the September draft He thinks, however, that a revision of men previously rejected as medically unfit will supply one and, perhaps, two reinforcement drafts, so that the first-class of the Second Division will probably be drawn in October or November at toe latest.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 156, 2 July 1917, Page 4
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157SECOND DIVISION. Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 156, 2 July 1917, Page 4
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