TNE BALLOT

Nelson Evening Mail, 7 June 1917, Page 4

TNE BALLOT

._ (United - Press Association.} WIELLfNGTON, June 6. • The number of names dTawn in the Eighth Ballot 1 was 8545;' but,'about 500 names "were withdrawn in process' of checking, owing to the. discovery that the men" concerned were already members of the Expeditionary Force or "were dead. The withdrawn names are published in a special list at the end of the Gazette, so that the whole 3545 men will 'be accounted for, and there will be no room. ; for . suspicion of unfairness by withdrawals. This means a-reduction of - nearly 6 per cent, in the number- o£ He- ■ 1 servists from-whom recruits required are Xo be obtained.j after the Medicaidand. - ( Military Se'rvicpr'Boards have donettheir work. ' Tliis was one,.ipf .the factors! jfeo 'be ' reckoned with recruiting authorities in connection "with the,iballots.'i,Ntearly 44,000 members "of the' First Djl?sion ,have been drawn in'the ballots, arid the Division has 'been- depleted'.'at the game time by voluntary enlistment andycontains not more than! between 30,000 and 31,000 at the present -time. ."..<, WEST COAST RECRUITING- ; l DISTRICT. ' The following- names . appear in, the eighth ballot for the West Coast recruiting district: Bredbury. J.. farmers,' Ariki- Murchison, Hodges, V. S., farm - labourer, Matiri, Murchison. -.'. *Hunter, .W. A., farmer, Central Buller, * '' Murchison. Jackson,' P. L., labourer, Owen .Junction, Nelson. >' Kerr, W. F..'railway porter, Railway Boardinghouse, Nelson. Ividd; A. W., baker,. Fern Flat, Alurchi* son. ; • Lpmax, P. 8., general agent, High-st., Motueka." *McCaa, A. J., farm assistant, T/utaki, Murchison. '■ ' Milligan, J, T.,, snwmillei*. Murchison. *Mills, P. E.,\ tailor, Murchison. Morley. G. •E. G., farmer, Mangarata, f\ Hobson, Murchison. o'Rourke, A. 8., farmer, Murchison. ■j Pfaff, A., quartz miner, Puponga, Col- . lingwood. Rait, 0., dairy farmer, Owen Junction; Murchison. Russell, A. T., Fern Flat, Murchison. *Scholefield, A., bushman, Matakitako, Murchison. Symonds, B. L., farmer, Ariki, Murchison. Thomas, R., .farmer, Owen Junction, Murchison. Thomson, G., farmer , t Mamawera, 'Murchison. , Trower, A., farm labourer, Murchison. Woodcock, W., bush feller, Murchison. We ..are informed that the name pi T. /. Brown, Weka-street, which appeared hi the Ballot yesterday, should .have been starred, as he enlisted on 10th Noi vember, 1915, also that the names ofG.1 Rlliott, A. Annea? and. Leslie WaVA should havo ben starred.-