3494
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 125

9. The whole of the drawers shall be withdrawn from their cabinets and arranged in the aforesaid order of the drawers and in charge of such attendants as may be deemed necessary by the Government Statistician, the drawers being reversed so that the backs of the cards contained therein are towards the attendants.

10. The card-drum shall then be revolved and a single marble shall be drawn from it, and the number of that marble shall be called out and recorded.

11. The marble so drawn from the card-drum shall represent a card in each of the drawers. The card so represented shall be determined by the number of the marble, so that if the number of the marble is 25 the card represented thereby shall be the twenty-fifth card in the drawer, counting from the back of the drawer next to the attendant, and similarly in the case of all other numbers. In so counting the cards, blank cards shall be counted as well as the cards of Reservists, but guide-cards shall not be counted.

12. When the marble has been drawn from the card-drum and the number of that marble has been called out, the attendant of each drawer shall count the cards in that drawer in manner aforesaid, remaining always at the back of the drawer so that he cannot see the face of any card. He shall thereupon take hold of the card represented by the number of the marble and stand the same upright in its place in the drawer so that the number of the recruiting district marked on the back of that card shall become visible, but he shall not lift the card out of its place in the drawer or disclose the face of the card.

13. When a card has been so selected in each drawer the Stipendiary Magistrate shall remove from each drawer in the order of the drawers such of those cards as bear the number of the recruiting district or of any of the recruiting districts from which the selection of Reservists is being made. He shall at the same time restore to its former position in each drawer every card which is marked with the number of any other recruiting district, or which is a blank. Every card so withdrawn from a drawer shall at the same time be replaced by a blank card. In so withdrawing or restoring cards the Magistrate shall not disclose or look upon the face of any card, until he has wholly withdrawn it from the drawer.

14. If any error is made in counting the cards in a drawer the error may be corrected before the card has been so withdrawn by the Magistrate, but not afterwards.

15. The Reservists whose cards are so withdrawn from the drawers shall be the Reservists upon whom the lot has fallen, and their names shall be thereupon recorded in respect of the appropriate recruiting district in the order of the drawers from which their cards were taken.

16. When a card has been withdrawn from or restored to every drawer in manner aforesaid, the process hereinbefore prescribed shall, if necessary, be repeated from time to time until the selection has been completed, save that the order of the drawers as established by the first drawing of marbles from the drawer-drum shall be retained until the selection has been completed.

17. Marbles so drawn from the card-drum shall not be restored thereto until the selection has been completed.

18. If, after the lot has fallen in manner aforesaid on the full number of cards required for any recruiting district, the lot falls on any further card marked with the number of that recruiting district, such card shall be deemed to be a blank and shall be dealt with accordingly.

19. The selection shall be deemed to be completed so soon as a number of cards has been so withdrawn from the drawers equal to the number of Reservists to be selected from the recruiting district or from each of the recruiting districts as the case may be.

20. The cards of all Reservists on whom the lot so falls shall be kept separate from the Register, and shall not be deemed to form part thereof, but shall thereafter be returned to their proper place in the Register if the Reservist by way of appeal or otherwise comes back into the Reserve.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.