A GREAT RESPONSE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2464, 18 May 1915, Page 6

A GREAT RESPONSE

TO EMPIRE'S CALL

DOMINION'S RECRUITING RECORD

CITY'S PROUD POSITION

The present rate of recruiting in New Zealand is regarded as entirely satisfactory. Just one month ago the I'rimo Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massoy} announced that in addition to tho ordinary reinforcements which for some time had bean arranged, tho Imperial Government had notilied tho New Zealand Government that they had accepted from New Zealand an offer for another body of troops, which would consist of a battery of artillery, of approximately 500 men, and infantry to the number of about 2000.

Already tho Wellington quota for the oitra force has been enrolled, and it is understood that the men for tho whole body have been secured. Moreover, the ordinary reinlorcemeut drafts, up to and including the Seventh Reinforcements, are completed, so far as enrolling the men for them is concerned.

Recruits are still coming iorward in largo numbers. Yesteday was a record recruiting day at the Wellington office, 58 men being placed on the books. Wellington is doing particularly well, and since February 7 1471 men have enrolled here. 'That is at the rate of about 5500 per year, w'hicli works out at 06,000 for Now Zealand per year. But in the last few weeks recruiting has been much heavier than before, and if all parts of the Dominion are responding to the call as well as Wellington City is, an army of 100,000 men would be raised in a year, at the present rate.

Auckland lias all along made a big contribution to forces raised, but some of the southern districts of the South Island have not been as successful in raising men as the North Island districts have.

There seems to be no limit to the number of really good men obtainable —that is, men of good physique. Even though such largo numbers of men have been recruited, those who are now coming forward are of excellent physique. Those who enrolled in Wellington yesterday are: —

Andrew Paulson, cook, City. Henry M. Jones, labourer, Brooklyn. James H. Barter, seaman, City. Rupert Cecil Wood, clerk, City. Joseph Jewett, bootmaker, Dunedin. Harry Mann, steward, City. Thomas B. bign, steward, City. Ernest Patrick Keelf, seaman, City. George Gale, cook, City. Kenneth Leslie Caverhill, farmer, Eastbourne. John Edward Mignot, steward, City. Edward Furse, painter, Otaki. Jack Sign, steward, City. A. Hochstadt, cook, City. John Walsh, fireman, City. George F. L. Bentley, slaughterman, Petone. , Alexander Somple, telegraph cadet, Trentham.

John H. W. Coyle, engine-driver, City. Jeremiah Kirby, fireman, City. Gavin Brown, carter, City. Dudley Samuel Rabone, bank clerk, City.

Sidney Heath, cabinetmaker, Upper Hutt.

Philip Johnson Wright, clerk, Se&toun.

Reginald Henry Greville, Civil Servant, City.

Frederick William Bowen, warehouseman, Berhampore. Gordon Parker, seaman, City. John Dryden, labourer, City. Sam. P. Chamiing, sailor, City. Gilbert Robert Olliver, tally-clerk, City. Samuel Joseph Beeby, painter, City. Joshua Davies, timber worker, Matiere, King Country. ! Dave O'Neil, fireman, City. William Goldsmith, cook, City. John Freyne, City. John Dickson, attendant, City. George William Hughes, small arms maker, Porirua.

John Oscar Wilson, railway clerk, City. _ i David Howard Wilkie, storeman, City. Arthur Augustus Mays, meat inspector, City.

Robert Ales Gordon, telegraph linesman, Karori. E. Curley, driver, Brooklyn. George Smith, labourer, Brooklyn, George Arthur Paget, labourer, City. John Black Smith, purser, Rosoneath. Sydney John Weggery, labourer, I'araparaumu. George Luke, engineer, Newtown. Charles Kindell, carman, Brooklyn. William Hedges, driver, Maranui. Arthur Ernest) Morrison, jeweller, Brooklyn.

Leal Clifford Silva, driver, Lower Hutt.

George P. Williams, trimmer, City. Charles Edward Ramsden, railway employee, City. ' E. Osborne, tailor, City, s' R. H. Wilkie, clerk, City. N. W. Crearer, Civil Servant, City. W. J. Butler, warehouseman, City. A. R. Glen, tram conductor, City. James Jameson, labourer, City. GREAT RALLY AT NEW PLYMOUTH (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) New Plymouth, May 17. A recruiting rally was held in the Theatre Royal to-night, and drew the largest crowd ever assembled hero. Over a thousand were unable to obtain admission. An overflow meeting was held in another hall. Mr, J. M. Hornsby, M.P., was the principal speaker. There was a great demonstration, and a procession in the main street. A resolution was passed-calling on all men of eligible age and fit for service to offer themselves to tho Defence Department. The meeting was most enthusiastio over recruiting, which gives promise of being considerably stimulated thereby.