NEXT MONTH’S BALLOT

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15133, 30 January 1917, Page 5

NEXT MONTH’S BALLOT

10,000 NAMES TO BE DRAWN. Another 10,000 names will be drawn from the register of the first division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve next month, at a ballot which is to commence on February 5. This is to fill any shortages existing on that date in the 27th and 28th mentsSo far some 10.600 members of the first division have been chosen by lot in the three ballots taken, the number being apparently arrived at on the assumption that two but of every three men would be exempted on one ground or another, as there were only about 3500 to fill. When nextmonth’s ballot is completed, over 20,000 names will have been drawn—quite »a large proportion of the 85,000 name? originally on the register.