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Enrolling territorials. (By TelcKrapU.-l'ress Association.) Christcliurch, May 9. Uniformed officers aro now making i canvass of tho city from door to door, enrolling territorials between the ages fixed by tlu- compulsory' training scheme. Tho authorities have taken this step to prevent evasion of tho provisions of tho Act. Applications for enrolment havo> been coming in steadily,, and up till Saturday 5%1 h.'.rl been enrolled, consisting of .'USS senior cadets and 1770 territorials. It is not yet possible to estimate tho number of young men that should be enrolled, but the house-to-house canvass may be txpccled to gather in all tho strays. An ofliecr spent a couple of hours this: morning in visiting about GO houses, but lie was unlucky enough to get no more than six recruits out of his morning's work. No hostility was shown to him by the householders, but they nearly all had no boys between the ages fixed fcr compulsory training.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1123, 10 May 1911, Page 4
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159FROM DOOR TO DOOR. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1123, 10 May 1911, Page 4
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