THE SECOND DIVISION.
STATEMENT BY SIR JAS. ALLEN. By Telegraph —Special Correspondent. WELLINGTON, Feb. 16. Some information about the Second Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve was given by Sir James Allen to-day. The Minister said that the classification of the Second Division was at present under consideration. It could be taken that the basis of classification would be the number of a man’s family, but he thought it might be possible to take account also of other dependants besides wife and children. He .had wished before the ballots began that the First Division should be classified according to men’s dependants, but, on examination of tins proposal, it was found that it would be a matter of the greatest difficulty—perhaps of impossibility —to discover who were a single man’s dependants. In the case of the Second Division, he hoped that it would be possible to take account of these other dependants supported or partially supported by married men.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4476, 17 February 1917, Page 5
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