Nov. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3493

Regulations as to the Selection by Lot of Reservists under the Military Service Act, 1916.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this first day of November, 1916.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section nine of the Military Service Act, 1916, it is enacted that the selection by lot of Reservists to be called up for service with the Expeditionary Force shall be made by the Government Statistician in such manner as the Governor in Council directs: And whereas by section six of the said Act it is enacted that the Register of Reservists shall be prepared by the Government Statistician in such manner as the Governor in Council directs: And whereas by Order in Council made on the twenty-sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, certain regulations were made prescribing and directing the manner in which the said Register should be prepared:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, do hereby, in pursuance of the authority conferred upon me by section nine of the Military Service Act, 1916, direct that the selection by lot of Reservists to be called up for service with the Expeditionary Force shall, until further order is made in that behalf, be made in accordance with the provisions contained in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. THE following provisions are applicable to every case in which Reservists of the First Division are to be selected by lot from those enrolled in the register of a recruiting district in pursuance of section 32 of the Military Service Act, 1916.

2. When the Minister of Defence has authorized the calling-up at the same time of Reservists from two or more recruiting districts, the selection may be made in accordance with the following provisions either separately in respect of each district or concurrently in respect of all or any of those districts.

3. The selection shall take place in the presence of the Government Statistician, a Stipendiary Magistrate (to be nominated for that purpose by the Minister of Defence), and such attendants as the Government Statistician may deem necessary.

4. The drawers hereinafter referred to are the drawers containing the cards which constitute the Register of the First Division of the Reserve as constituted in accordance with the aforesaid Order in Council of the 26th day of September, 1916.

5. There shall be two drums of marbles, distinguished as the drawer-drum and the card-drum.

6. The drawer-drum shall contain a number of marbles equal to the number of the drawers, each marble being marked with the number of a different drawer.

7. The card-drum shall contain five hundred marbles numbered consecutively from 1 to 500.

8. When the selection is to be made, all of the marbles in the drawer-drum shall, after the drum has been revolved, be drawn out one by one and recorded in the order in which they are so drawn. This order shall be deemed to be the order of the drawers, so that the drawer whose number is first so drawn from the drawer-drum shall be first in the order of the drawers, and so on with all other drawers.

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