SECOND BALLOT
TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK TERRITORIAL FORCE 31,000 TO BE DRAWN OVERSEAS ' CALL-UP SOON WELLINGTON, yesterday. The Minister of National Service, the Hon. R. Semple, announced today that a second ballot to select men for territorial service would be held next week, commencing on October 21. The Gazette would be issued on Wednesday, November 6. Men drawn in the first ballot, he said, were required to build up tho war establishment of those territorial units which were due to complete their intensive training before the end of December. The second ballot will be necessary to complete the units which would commence training early in January. The number to be drawn in this- ballot is 34,000, which, after appeals, medical examinations, and transfers to overseas forces,- should make available 10,000 men for training in January and March, 1941. Mr. Semple added that as soon as possible after the territorial ballot a ballot for overseas service would be held for the Sixth Reinforcements-.
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Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 323, 18 October 1940, Page 2
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