MEN FOR THE FRONT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16560, 8 June 1917, Page 6

MEN FOR THE FRONT.

TWO VOLUNTEERS EXAMINED

BOTH PASSED AS FIT. Two volunteers who were registered at the city recruiting station yesterday were pronounced medically fit for service abroad. The men were:—

H. Stevens, farmer, Kaukapakapa. W. Bishop, soldier. Oiftkoi.

RECRUITS LEAVE FOR CAMP.

SUPPLEMENTARY DRAFT.

A supplementary draft of five men to fill casual vacancies in the units at present in camp left for tho South by tho Main Trunk oxprcss last evening. Tho names of the men are:—

E. J. MacCartncy. labourer, Wellington St. Wm. Edmunds, carrier, Birkenhead. W. E. Sheppard, travollor, Otahuhu. F. Woodruilo, painter. Dominion Road. C. M. Young, clerk, Ponsonby.

FIRST DIVISION RESERVISTS.

ADVANTAGES OF VOLUNTEERING.

Approximately three ballots may now be expected to exhaust tho remaining strength of the first division reserve, according to the estimate of the recruiting authorities. Upon that assumption the September quota will see the last of the first division men called up for medical examination. It is now open for such men to enlist voluntarily for the September quota. The officer commanding No. 1 group pointed out yesterday that men who voluntarily presented themselves for medical examination with a view to being enrolled for that quota would havo their names withdrawn from the ballot list, and would have the advantage of knowing immediately how they stood with regard to proceeding upon active service. Their position would be exactly the same as if they waited to be drawn in the ballot except that the question of their fitness or otherwise would he ascertained earlier by voluntary enlistment. Any man who so offered himself, and subsequently found that circumstances would make it a hardship for him to go into camp with the September draft, ■ would still havo the opportunity of applying for an oxtension of leave in the ordinary way. The only courso open to the balloted reservist which would not be _ open to the men enlisting in the way indicated would be that they would be able to apply for total exemption from military service abroad. Any man wishing to make an appeal with that ond in view would preclude his chance of having his plea heard if he enrolled as a volunteer.

CALLED UP IK THE BALLOT.

MEN ERRONEOUSLY INCLUDED.

Further instances are to hand of men called up in the recent ballot who either are now in camp or have been medically rejected. J, A. Simms, has been on activo service for 15 months, as a member of the New Zealand Medical Corps. Leslie C. L. Averill, second son of Bishop Averill, volunteered before he was 20, and at the earliest possible moment went into camp as a probationary noncommissioned officer. He is now a corporal in tho twenty-ninth reinforcements; Henry. E. Woollams, of Manukau Road, Epsom, enlisted in January, 1916, and was rejected on . medical grounds. The Rev. H. E. Gallop, formerly of Taumarunui, who is also called up, left for England nearly two years ago.