AN EXTRA FORCE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2439, 19 April 1915, Page 6

AN EXTRA FORCE

NEW ZEALAND OFFER ACCEPTED Infantry wanted right away The Prime Minister (tho Right Hon. W. F. Massey) announced, when addressing the ; troops on Saturday afternoon, that, in addition to the ordinary reinforcements which had for somo time been arran'ged, the Imperial Government had notified the New Zealand Government, that they had accepted from New Zealand an offer of another reinforcement, a military body consisting of a battery of artillery of approximately 500 men and infantry to the number of. about 2000 men. The new body would go into camp as soon as arrangements could .be made, and as soon as the men were forthcoming. He felt certain the men would be forthcoming as soon as the public knew that they were required. New Zealand had done nobly so far, continued Air. Massey, and so they proposed to continue. Nothing New Zealand could do to assist ' the Mother Country in this crisis would bo loft undone. Everything that could be done would-be done f-heerfully-, and without any unnecessary fuss or noise.

' The Minister of Defence (the Hon. J.. Allen) stated, to a Dominion representative last evening that the Defence "Department practically had the artillerymen they required now, and that the infantry would be called up right away.