FIRST DIVISION
STILL 30,695 MEN LEFT
A return, prepared by the Government Statistician (Mr. Malcohnn Fraser), shows that at the conclusion of the Bth . Ballot on tho" 30th ult. there were still 30,695 men left in the First Division oE the Expeditionary Force Reserve. Tho numbers remaining in tho respeotiva reel uiting districts are as under: — Recruiting District Ist Division No. ■ Men Left. 1 Auckland 5224 ,2 Hauraki ■' 806 3 North AnpU-laiifl 899 4 Waikato' ■ 1453 5 Wellington 3408 6 Manawatu -. 1282 7 Hawkes Bay 1340 8 Taranaki 1379 9 Christchurch 1988 10 South Canterbury 1178 ' 11 North Canterbury .... 663 12 Nelson 963 13 Dunedin 2075 14 Southland _ 1638 15 North Otago 578 16 South Otago 499 17 Clutha 760 18 Wairarapa. _ 1108 19 Poverty Bay 900 / 2QWangamii- 1104 21 West Coast „ 1450 Total : 30,695 At tho present rate of exhaustioni of a little over 8500 every four weeks this should leave- sufficient for another three ballots, with a, few thousand to spare. Afterwards will come the revision of members of the First Division who hare been medically rejected or granted temporary exemption. When this revision has been, completed the first classes o£ the Second Division will be called upon.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 136, 8 June 1917, Page 7
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200FIRST DIVISION Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 136, 8 June 1917, Page 7
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