THE MILITARY BALLOT
\ '■* DRAWING COMPLETED YESTER- . DAY. Tho third, ballot under the Military Service Act was completed yesterday soon after noon. The names of tho reservists selected for service have still to be checked by the presiding Magistrate (Mr. S. E. Macarthy) and the Government Statistician (Mr. Malcolm Eraser); This work probably will he completed to-day, and the lists will be published before tho end of the present week. Tho machinery of the. ballot is now running more smoothly and more rapidly than it did in the earlier stages. Tho staff has acquired experience, and 6everal improvements in method have been _ introduced, with the object of securing increased speed. The ballot as it is conducted now, without any loss of accuracy or fairness, is capable of providing between 2000 and 3000 names in a working day. An amended regulation glider tho Military Service Act provided for the i eduction of the number of cards in <ach bos below 500. This change is intended to avoid the slowing of the ballot, by the reduction of the number' <if boxes as names are. -withdrawn from the reserve owing to enlistments. The smaller the number of boxes, the fewer cards are raised at each draw.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2973, 10 January 1917, Page 6
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202THE MILITARY BALLOT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2973, 10 January 1917, Page 6
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