MEN FOR TERRITORIAL FORCE
SHORTAGE IN NORTHERN DISTRICT (P.S.S.) AUCKLAND, April 29. There will be a shortage of more than 2000 when mobilisation for the May-July period of territorial force training is effected throughout the northern military district on Thursday. Instead of having more than 4500, which is the number necessary to fill the new units and bring others up to establishment, the army has about 2000. I It Is also expected that the position will become even worse when a Gazette is published next week with the names of those men drawn in the recent ballot for overseas service. Previous ballots for the Expeditionary Force have resulted in large numbers of home defence troops being lost to their units, and the same experience is expected on this occasion. Without the effect of the ballot, the existing shortage is as bad as any which have occurred since the intensification of home defence training, and it is stated that the only means of making it good is to follow the unsatisfactory procedure of sending more men into camp in drafts as they bfy come available, although this can be done for only a certain period in a three months* course, i,
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23316, 30 April 1941, Page 6
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