EVENTS IN NEW ZEALAND.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2231, 18 August 1914, Page 6

EVENTS IN NEW ZEALAND.

FILLING THE WAR CHEST

GENEROUS GIFT FOR DISTRESS RELIEF

MOBILISING THE TROOPS

THE WELLINGTON DISTRICT PROVIDING 5000 MEN

Tho Palmerston North' concentration camp began to assume a busy aspect yesterday. Sine© Friday morning, 250 volunteers for the main Expeditionary Force have left Wellington City ,fbr tho concentration camp at Palmerston North. It is not intended to send any more to tho cainp from Wellington at present, for the full number required, will soon be under canvas. Enrolment ,will still continue, however. From the Wellington military district opproxinately. 4500 volunteers have been received for the main Expeditionary Force, and with the number that went with the advance guard, the district has supplied well over 5000. The Palmerston ' camp is now. accommodating about 700 men;, including a fnrther. draft of'so from Wellington, which left Thorndon station morning. It is expected that the camp will be complete by to-morrow. ~'.. ■ Major-General Sir, Alexander i Godley, who has been appointed to the'command of'.the- main .Expeditionary Force, left . for Auckland on Sunday night. He'v/ill inspect-the concentration camp at Auckland, 'arid leave! by the midday train jto- ■ day on his return to Wellington. He will spend to-morrow in Wellington, and'will leave in the evening for Duriedin. After inspecting the camp there he'will, go to Christchuich, arid.Teturn to Wellington on Sunday morning next. Ho will probably , visit the/PalmeTston. North .camp next week. '. '-, ••'■•• •■■;.'.■ , CONTINGENTS KROM OTHER PARTS, (By Meeraih.— PrpVs Associations .;. Auckland, August 17. Several h'undrsd more men were drafted into tho local mobilisation camp at..Epsom to-day, and .by AVednesday it is anticipated that the whole of the Auckland portion of the Expeditionary Fqroe will have been ■ mobilised. '•'■-.■ '/ ' Napier, August 17.' • The Napier detachment of the Expeditionary Force was farewelled by a crowd of between six end seven thousand. •'..■' Gisborrie, August 17. The Giflborne contingents havo departed, the moumteds leaving by the Ripple on Saturday night and the infantry By the Tarawera. on Sunday. Largo crowds gave the troops' enthusiastic farewells. Westport, August 17. The Westport unit, twenty men, left foT . Ohristchuiroh this morning. ' There was an enthusiastic send-off by two thousand citizens. • : . Nelson. August 17 : Nelson, Motiieka, and Blenheim < district committees are sending full equipment, for, 400 men, also 175 horses fully, equipped. The value of the equipment is about £5000, ... .Greymouth, August 17. To-morrow morning 60 additional West 'Coasters leave'to join the others.in camp at Addingfon.'.' Men are freely offering and they are of excellent-stariip.' FOR ACTIVE SERVICE. '."'* ' NEW : ZEALAND TERRITORIALS. . ' ■', A proclamation was yesterday issued by His Excellency tho Governor, under Section 71 of the Defence Amendment 'Act, 1912, calling out'foT. active service-the following- parts ofl the^erritorial.Force:— No. 1 Troop, "A" Squadron-, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment.' , , '. . '.'.;■. No. 1 Platoon, A Company, 15th (North Auckland) Regiment.' . : ,,' . "A" Company,; sth (Wellington) Regiment,' '■ ' . ■ No. : 1 Platoon, "A" Company, ■■: Bth (Southland) Regiment. ' ' " ; ' '. ■ "J" Company, 18th (North, Canterbury and v.Westland) Regiment, less members actually engaged in coal-mining, i :