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OUR RECRUITING

pffsr. v. - ■ | STEADY FLOW FROM ALL DISTRICTS !: EVEN CHATHAM ISLANDS Reports reoeived in Wellington from ■ jporious oeatreg iix New Zealand # ere to ! the effect that reoruiting is still pro- : ceeding satisfactorily. Quite a num- ' tor of men were 'medioally examined in .Wellington during tie week, and tho t result was that- the available number of satisfactory men has been increased iy a handy number. - i Forty-eight men presented tfhemselyeg for medical examination, in Auckland on Friday, arid these were all men. who 1 Jiad - been enrolled since the previous »• 'Monday. On Thursday alone about half : the fifty came forward. Thirty-two the doctors, and thov have ar--1 rived in Wellington. This batch completes Auckland's contribution to the • Fcurth Reinforcements. Eight men for the - Samoan contingent arrived at .Trentham from Auckland on Thursday ! •: teyoning. . In Auckland mon are now being enlisted for; the Fifth Reinforcements, and ; '- 'it is' understood that the. progress inada to data: is quite satisfactory.. It is _an- \ : aounced that no more men/are required to bo furnished by Canterbury for the Samoan garrison, as the full comple- >■■■ went has been made up from other districts. ■, ■ ■ Reorniting is still being carried / n 'satisfactorily ••in the Timaru district; Ono day last week a detachment of 40 i ' men from there arrived here to join the Samoan contingent now forming at Trenthain. A small number also came jiortbto join the other , forces. The fol- ' lowing day Timaru sent along-another batch _of ■40 men, all of ' whom joined ■■■■•■' .the reinforcements., . . •'•'■• v; ' .Twenty-five mounted men and 75 infantry will be' the Timaru district's quota for the next detachment of reinforoements, and these 'are' expected ! to arrive,at Trentham about, the middle . of" February. Already there are sufficient men at call to fill the requirements of the.mounted branch. Men continue to roll in from Christchurch and surrounding district. Canterbury's . quota of the Fourth ' Rein- ■ forcements has'been completed. ;' The batch which made up the 'necessary number was a party of 36 men who arrived here last week-end.. The Defence • authorities in Ohristchurch are. still .: 'ltept busy takingnames of men anxious io serve at the front.; , . . . While 'the call to arm s is being; an-, ewered by Britishers in all parts of tho ■world, it is gratifying;'to learn, that in ■ ' such a remote part of .;the Empire as the Chatham Islands a ready response has been'made. : From'_this little settle- ; went, 'with'its population of only a fevr hundred- people,; who earn -their. livelihood'principally: by sheep-raising and .the filing industry, at Lyttelton Dy the steamer Himitangi on • 'Saturday young colonial manhood, anxious to ■serve - with ,the /New' Zealand . Expeditionary-! Forces.', s Their- action.vis . the: ■\more interesting when it becomes known-i'-y .tliat.one of them,: a.-strapping young fellow of 22 years/and six feet, in Sleight,- had lived all his life on the islands,': and had neveii seen'/any . other . part- of the great; Em^re'of which he is » citizen. . Beyond' tho .vessels tljat call nt the Chathams from Now Zealand, he had never, seen a steamer, .and the' sight of-the modern turbine steamer Maori; - which lio obtained-from the .deck of the Himitangi, waaa revelation, to him, as also i-were -the . railway trains, the; first glimpse of which ho got at Lyttelton upon arrival. .' "■

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2363, 20 January 1915, Page 6

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OUR RECRUITING Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2363, 20 January 1915, Page 6

OUR RECRUITING Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2363, 20 January 1915, Page 6

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