Oct. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3709

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Registers of Reservists.

1. THERE shall be a register of the First Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve, and a register of each class of the Second Division of that Reserve, as constituted by the aforesaid Orders in Council of the 4th day of July, 1917, and the 3rd day of September, 1917.

2. Each register shall be kept in accordance with the card system, the cards to be arranged in the alphabetical order of the surnames of the reservists, and to be kept in cabinets containing such number of boxes as the Government Statistician from time to time thinks necessary. The boxes shall be numbered consecutively.

3. The cards shall consist of the original personal schedules furnished by the reservists under the National Registration Act, 1915. In cases where no such personal schedule has been furnished the cards shall consist of the original enrolment cards furnished by applicants for enrolment under the regulations made in that behalf under the Military Service Act, 1916, on the 28th day of August, 1916. In cases where no such personal schedules or enrolment cards have been furnished, the cards shall be prepared by the Government Statistician, and shall contain such material particulars with respect to the reservists as may be within the knowledge of the Statistician.

PART II.

Selection of Reservists by Lot.

4. When the Minister of Defence has authorized the calling-up of reservists belonging to the First Division of the Reserve or to any class of the Second Division of the Reserve, the selection of those reservists by lot shall take place in accordance with the following provisions.

5. 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.

6. The boxes hereinafter referred to are the boxes containing the cards which constitute the register of the division or class from which the reservists are to be selected.

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

8. The box-drum shall contain a number of marbles equal to the number of the boxes, each marble being marked with the number of a different box.

9. The card-drum shall contain a number of marbles equal to the number of cards for the time being in each of the boxes. These marbles shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with the number one.

10. Before the selection is made the register shall be so adjusted that each box contains an equal number of cards (to be determined by the Government Statistician), including in the case of any box such number of blank cards (if any) as he thinks necessary.

11. When the selection is to be made, all of the marbles in the box-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 boxes, so that the box whose number is first so drawn from the box-drum shall be first in the order of the boxes, and so on with all other boxes.

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

13. 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.

14. The marble so drawn from the card-drum shall represent a card in each of the boxes. 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 box, counting from the back of the box 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.

15. When the marble has been drawn from the card-drum and the number of that marble has been called out, the attendant of each box shall count the cards in that box in manner aforesaid, remaining always

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