REINFORCEMENT DRAFTS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1358, 20 June 1918, Page 8

REINFORCEMENT DRAFTS.

COMING MOBILISATIONS. [Special to The Sun.J WELLINGTON, June 19. The number of men ordered to enter camp with the 43rd draft this week is 1277, including 237 from Auckland Citv, 127 from Wellington, 158 from Christchurch, and 41 from Dunedin. The hulk of the recruits are men called from the First Division and Class A of the Second Division, but there are also men from Classes B, C and D of the Second Division, consisting of reservists who have volunteered to enter camp ahead of their classes or to forgo the three months' leave.

At the end of last week the number of men ordered to concentrate with the 44th draft in July was 537. The Director of Recruiting desires to bring this draft up to a strength of 1200 men, and the districts have been instructed to accept volunteers for the 44th Reinforcement from among balloted men willing to forgo their leave and from among unballoted men of Classes C and D. The 45th Reinforcement, entering camp in August, contained over 1250 men at the end of last week, and the ICth draft, mobilising in September, contained 816 men.

The number of men at present on the lists of recruits for the CI camp is 1326, comprising 563 for the draft mobilising on July 4, and 310, 323, and 100 respectively for the three succeeding drafts. These numbers will be increased as the work of the special C2 Medical Board proceeds.