SECOND DIVISION MEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1014, 6 November 1917, Page 5

SECOND DIVISION MEN.

FIRST DRAFT ENTERS CAMP IN MARCH. (Special to “Standard.”) WELLINGTON, Nov. 5. Voluntary enlistment is to be confined now to nineteen -year-old and twemy-year-old recruits and to classes A and H of the Second Division. This announcement is made in a headquarters circular about to be issued. Married men with two or more children are not to bo accepted for service at present, though they «ill be given a chance to enlist voluntarily before they art' called up in the ballot. ■ The circular provides that all Second Invision recruits, whether voluntarily enlisted or balloted, are to have twelve weeks’ leave without pay after medical examination, before the date of concentration, for ill.' purpose of proceeding to camp. The first draft of the Second Division men (those drawn ■in the recent ballot) are to enter camp durp.,,, the period March 5-9, and subsequent drafts at four-weekly intervals. The first men of class 13 are likely to enter camp durin,r the mobilisation period May 28-June 1 , IC xt The turn of the class G men is likely t0 ‘ corn*' in the period September 17-21. Tlio class C men are expected to make four drafts, and so will last until the end of’the year 1918. . f , Second Division men who fail to enrol as members of the Expeditionary Force Reserve will be liable to be. sent into camp immediately after examination, either for foreign service or home service, according t a their degree of fitness, . Men who fail tt ■ report lor medical examination on tin (i.i tea ordered, after being balloted, will forfeit their privilege of twelve weeks’ leave beh we mobilisation unless they can prove that they were absent through causis beyond their control. They will be examined subsequently, and the leave will be dated back to the day originally fixed tor the cxapih lation.