SECOND BALLOT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23816, 18 November 1940, Page 9

SECOND BALLOT

APPEALS, TOTAL 2045 MORE EXPECTED TO-DAY SOME FOR OTHER AREAS A total of 2045 appeals, affecting 1562 reservists out of the 8300 drawn in the second Territorial ballot, had been received by the Auckland Area Manpower Committee when the time for lodging applications closed 011 Saturday. However, it is expected that many further appeals that were posted 011 Saturday will swell the number to-day. Sorting the appeals kept the committee's staff busy until late on Saturday afternoon. It was found that in addition to those affecting Auckland area reservists, there was <1 large number for men in the Whangarei and Hamilton areas. These have been sent on to the correct committees. It is also .expected that these committees will have some appeals to send to the Auckland committee.

THE NORTHLAND AREA 700 APPLICATIONS IN HAND [from our 6wn correspondent] WHANGAREI, Sunday Appeals lodged by men in Northland called in the second ballot for territorial service number 700. Although yesterday was the final day for the lodgment of appeals, if they were posted yesterday they will be received. As the Jsorthland district covers such a wide area it will be some days before all appeals have been received at the National Service Department's office at Whangarei. From experience with first ballot appeals it is probable that there are some hundreds yet to be received. NEW OFFICERS LIST OF AUCKLANDERS After intensive training with an officer cadet training unit at Trentham, a number of northern military district Expeditionary Force volunteers have been granted commissions. They include H. G. Vivian, a New Zealand representative cricketer, and R. G. Bush, a former All Black. The new second lieutenants are:—l?. C. Allen, A. W. Boyce, D. G. Brash, I\. Buckingham, A. B. Bullen, R. G. Bush. H. C Gayford, R. E. Horrocks. C. N. James. H. M. Kirk, B. J. Louden, S. H. Naismith, R. A. Nichol, R. L. Pratt, E. Proctor, B. C. P. Rawson, A. G. Steele. W. E. Street, W. A. Scott, T. J. Ferris, H. L. Francis. A. E. Wilkinson. K. H. Barron, D. E. C'outts, T. L. Cooper. J. H. Eccleton. A. G. Gray, E. G. McKechnie, M. M. Robertson, I. G. Scott. H. G. Vivian, P. K Wilson and N. C. Pilcher.

WET CANTEENS IN CAMPS PRAISE OF MANAGEMENT [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] PALMERSTON NORTH, Sunday Praise of the manner in which tliQ wet canteens at Papakura and Burnham military camps are being conducted was voiced by chaplains at a meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. The Rev. R. G. McDowell, chaplain at Papakura, said he bad been in camp for seven weeks and had not seen an intoxicated man. No man was served with drink if he showed any signs of being afTected by it. The Rev. H. 0. Bowman spoke similarly of Burnham Camp.