YESTERDAY'S VOLUNTEERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2478, 3 June 1915, Page 6

YESTERDAY'S VOLUNTEERS

The men who enrolled at the Wellington offieo yesterday were as under, the address being "City" unless otherwise specified:— Richard Ernest Chaplin, hotel worker. Walter Bannister, carpenter. '• Herbert Harris, hospital attendant, Porirua. Thomas I l '. Wicks, kitehenman. William M'Keuzie, marine engineer, Auckland.

Frederick William Wheeler, farm labourer, Wainui-o-mata. Harry Arthur Dean, agent, Levin. Robert Gordon Holmes, engineer. Basil Patrick Martini, clerk. Frederick Cressweli, labourer. Oswald Ernest B. Coombridge, cliemist, Christchurc'h. . Victor Hollis Ktott, clerk. William Preston Stead, ironmonger. Theo. Hunter, musician. Albert Edward Perry, accountant, Maranai. Alton James Nimmo, piano mechanic, Hataitai. John Hugh Phillips, Civil Servant, Kilbirnie. William Daniel Starley, messenger. Sidney Woodham, labourer. John Henry Ford, Customs clerk, Newtown. William Gaztley, dark. William Henshihvood, commercial traveller. John T. S. Barker, seaman. John Brown, clerk. Arthur George Harman, storeman. Francis Roberts, clerk. ■ Frederick W. 'B. Goodbehere, law clerk. , , Walter Sidney G. Taton, clerk. Rupert W. Reed, solicitor. James Ryan, mutton trimmer, Johnsonvillo. August Bishop, farmer, Otal;i. Samuel L. Cook, compositor, Otaki. Joe Ropata,, labmuor, Manukau. Potama Ransfield, labourer, Waikanae. Te Whango Katerina, Taumarunui. Ritaiii Warahi, labourer, Taumarunui. '

Teata H. Kiugi, labourer, Taumarunui. Nete Karengl, farmer, Ongarue. Hinaki Topia, farmer, Taumarunui. Hare Hfirengi, farmer, Ongarue. Tori Bell, labourer, Taumarunui. Kawa Waralii, labourer, Taumarunui. IS THE DOMINION DOINO ITS SHARE? VIEWS OF THE MAYOR OF AUCKLAND. ' "I think we can see the fact looming up that we shall have to do a great dial more than has been done," stated Mr. J. Gunson, Mayor of Auckland, to a "Herald" reporter. Mr. Gunson continued: —"By comparison with results at Home, New Zealand's response does not seem to be as great as is commonly thought. What arc the facts? The United Kingdom has a population of 40 millions odd. Amongst these are included degenerates, the physically unfit, and the thousands engaged in war worki but the Old Country has supplied some three millions of men for the front, this being equal to 8 per cent, of the population. New Zealand, on the other hand, out of a population of one million, all of them more or less fit, has sent, or has now in training, certainly not more than 23,000 men —not niore than 2 per cent, of tho population. "If we were to rise to the same standard of response as the United Kingdom —and why should we not, as an integral part of the British Empire?—wo should require to send away four times as many men as we have done so far. Comment on this is needless. ' If this contention is right, then.-tile country is not doing its duty in declining to accept the sorvices of men who are anxious to he immediately drafted into camp and sent abroad. It is absolutely beside the mark to talk of shirkers and slackers when the number of men offering are in excess of those that can be received. Auckland in the past often given the lead in various movements, and may have to do so again. Several deputations have waited upon mo in connection with the recruiting movement, and the members of these deputations are pressing the matter. I believe that the public opinion that is being created on this matter will develop so rapidly that tho Government will have to do something considerably more relative to its obligations than it has done to dato. I am satisfied the desire of all is to co-operate and assist the military authorities, and this assistance will bo extended to the very* fullest degree.. But what, we are dealing with now is the question of the authorities refusing to accept men who, in response to Tecent intimations as. to tho lack of recruits, are now offering themselves for service at the front.