TO-DAY'S BALLOT

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 85, 10 April 1917, Page 7

TO-DAY'S BALLOT

DRAWING 4812 NAMES

TO-TSKKEIIP -SHORTAGES.

OF POUR TO "ONE,

'A;slwßot-was.comineiiced' from among ■the-inember&Vof .the First Division of the Force Reserve this afternoon for-«the .purpose »of making up the shortages in the 30th Reinforcements, voluntary enlistment for winch was closed down on Thmsday last. The ballot is" 1 being conducted by the Govern^ ment Statistician (Mr.. Malcolm Fraser) in the presence of Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M.,'the supervising magistrate, and representatives of the press and public. The dr&wing, it is expected j will be com-i; pleted by to-morrow afternoon, and tharesults, per form o£ Gazette Extraordi-! nary, will be announced early next week, i The total shortages required to bs-i made u£-by ballot for the 30ths is 1203. The following table rshows'the nnmber of j ■voluntary recrnits obtained, and fch*' shortages:iL. eachsrecrniting ,diatriot i—

It will vbe observed from the abovw-'. that the^Bay of-Plenty district has ones i more escaped the .ballot,".ha-ving raised i the whole of its quota.voluntarily, Hithert.6 it has been the custom to < draw only three names for- every vacancy '< ■ required to bo filled^' In-cdhsequence of ' the decision,' however, to tighten up tho medical standard for men going into! camp, it has become - necessary to Taise ' the proportion. This has now been fixed j at four to one. Consequently, the total' number of names to be drawn in'ther 1 present ballot will be 4812.

Recnnfctng .Voluntary No. District. Recruits. Shortage, 1 Auckland City? 290 67 2 Hauraki 33. 29 3 North Auckland.— 42 26 4 Waikatw - 67 35 , 5 Welliiigt»iu.Gitys_:.l23 117 6 ManaTKatu. —, .41 65 7 Hawkes' Bay _.. ■ 68 21 8 Taranaki"—~-L_~ 67 44 9 Olndstchurch _, ,44 126 10' South, Canterbury -14 > 92 11 North Canterbury 4 ", 55 12 :Nelson . ...18 64 13 Dunedia » 81 66 14 SoutiHand : t 17 119 15 North Otago 13, 36 16-Chitha 8 37' 17 Bay of 1 Plenty 46 — 18 Wairaiapa, 50 38 19 Poverty Bay, 9 61 20 Wanganui „ ~- 37 51 21 West Coast 4 54 Totals ...... 1074 1203