REINFORCEMENT DRAFTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1017, 9 November 1917, Page 5

REINFORCEMENT DRAFTS.

(Special to “Standard.”) WELLINGTON, Nov. S. The announcement that, the men drawn in the Twelfth Ballot (Class A men of the Second Division) would not be required to enter camp before .March sih, has just been interpreted in some quarters to mean that reinforcement drafts were being dropped. That is not the case. The December draft lias been put back until January (including the dralt for the CT camp) in order to keep the camps clear at Christmas time, but the January and February reinforcements will bo. mobilised in the usual wav. They will consist of First Division ‘balloted men, volunteers and youths who have just attained military U The roll of the First Division has been exhausted by ballot, but. it docs not follow that all the' fit and available hirst. Division men have reached camp. the recruiting authorities, as a matter of fact, have several thousand First Division men in hand. They are men whoso appeals are under consideration, men who have_ been granted periods of Icin'e to settle their [in-

rate affairs, men who arc toin|*oid' > unfit, and so forth. J hose reservists die being gathered in as quickly as possible and the recruiting authorities ‘uirimpaß that the amount of overlapping a. between the First Division and the Second Division will he reduced to a mumimm.