TERRITORIAL FORCES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24430, 16 October 1940, Page 8

TERRITORIAL FORCES

MEN CALLED FOR SERVICE NUMBER PROBABLY SUFFICIENT (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 15. The Director of National Service (Mr J. S. Hunter) said the assumption in a report from Auckland that the ballot held recently to fill the vacancies in the Territorial Forces had produced Insufficient men, and that a second ballot of a similar nature was to be held on a Dominion-wide basis, was entirely incorrect. Nobody could possibly say what number the ballot would finally produce, for appeals had not been heard and the medical examinations were incomplete. The indications were, however, that the number called up in the ballot was about right to produce the number of men required. ~ , . The scheme of training provided for balloting being spread over the training season, Mr Hunter added, and the first ballot was held to produce the men who were to bring up to war strength the territorials who went into camp in October. The next ballot would bring the January quota up to war strength.

A Press, Association message from Auckland received yesterday stated: A military officer said that owing to the fact that the ballot held recently to fill the vacancies in the Territorial Forces produced an insufficient number of men, a second ballot of a similar nature is to be held on a Dominionwide basis. Neither the date nor the number of the men to be drawn is yet available.