NATIONAL SERVICE BALLOTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13140, 14 September 1940, Page 4

NATIONAL SERVICE BALLOTS

AVALANCHE OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED

QUESTION OF APPEALS

“No appeals against being called up can be considered till a reservist has been actually selected in a ballot,” said the Minister of National Service, Mr. Semple, when referring a few days ago to the “avalanche” of correspondence which had been received by the Department of NaI tional Service from reservists who I wrote protesting against their incluI sion in the First Division of the General Reserve, and desired to appeal against being, called up for military service. Mr. Semple said that when a reservist had been drawn, in a ballot, there would then be plenty of time and opportunity for him to submit an appeal to a properly constituted tribunal for exemption on one or more of several grounds upon which appeals may be based. He stated that his department could not take any action with regard to appeals, the determination of which rested wholly with the tribunal.

Advice received yesterday from the National Service Department by a Tauranga resident who had voluntarily enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, stated that only after actual attestation to the Air Force would exemption be granted" The communication staffed: “In event of your attested for overseas service and passed medically fit, the Air Department will advise this office, and you will then be at liberty to return your certificate to this office for cancellation.”