THE RECRUITING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2455, 7 May 1915, Page 7

THE RECRUITING

.YESTERDAY'S LIST. The following twenty recruits roistered at the Mount Cook Drill Shed yesterday:— Norman fioyne, telegraphist, Wellington. Athol M. Morris, stock agent, Wadestown. Joseph Maxton Earle, warehouseman, Wellington. Thomas Williams, shop-assistant, 40 Sutherland Crescent. David George Beaumont, moulder, 9 Yogel Street. Ernest Archibald Larkin, Beauchamp Street, Wadestown. Prank Ernest Ballard, gas-fitter, Jolmsonville. Edward Chas. Prendeville, clerk, Karori. John L. Struthers, farmer, G.P.0., Wellington. Herbert Allan Davis, clerk, Grant Road. Lindsay Thomas Valintine. joiner, Boulcott Avenue. Allan Bruce Buxton, law clerk, 40 Central Terraoe. ' John Wickslone, fireman, G.P.O. Fred. E. Chappell, commercial travsller, 135 Brougham Street. William Ohas. Bevan, labourer, 21 rhorndon Quay. Edward Dimens Snell, Civil Sen-ant, Justice Department. Charles L. Young, University student, Palmerston North. George Ernest Miles, labourer. Maryborough. : Samuel Herbert Hunter, bushman, G.P.O. • Henry Maldon M'Farlane, grocer, Seatoun. NATIONAL RESERVE QUOTA. EFFORT TO RAISE 2000 MEN. _ At the regular meeting of the executive of the Wellington Military District on Wednesday night, the following important resolution was unanimously passed. Immediate steps are being taken to carry it into effect: — "In the opinion of this Executive Committee of the Wellington Military District, • the approaching crisis in the war phase demands from, all loyal men special patriotic efforts to do their duty in obtaining a righteous victory, and still ■ more strongly securing the freedom of all subjects of the Empire under the time-honoured Union Jack. "In order to support actively and practically the_ Defence Department at this junoture it is suggested that the National Reserve throughout the Dominion offer to raise at least 2000 soldiers under the badge of the reserve, each of the military districts of Auckland. Wellington, Christchurch,, and Otago_ contributing if;s quota of 500 from its enrolled strength or by specia'i enlistment of others of the regulation age, 20 to 40, as 'Nationals.' "The president'is hereby empowered and authorised to carry into effect this resolution." DUNEDIN RECRUITING STIMULATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dunedln, May 6. There is a marked increase in the number of recruits coming forward here for the new unit and the 7th Reinforcements, 66 -men presenting themselves at the last bi-weekly examination—a record for the Dunedih group. Should the country districts do as well the position should be very satisfactory. The fftot of the New Zealanders having been in action appears to have had a stimulating effect.