MEN AND THE CALL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2482, 8 June 1915, Page 6

MEN AND THE CALL

—; o RECRUITING TALLY PALL IN CITY'S ENROLMENTS NO OPPORTUNITIES QUOTA FOR TENTH ABOUT FULL. Reoruiting in Wellington last week slumped somowjiat as compared with the enrolments for the two previous weeks. The results of tho last three weeks' reoruiting have been:— May 17 to 22 234 May 24 to 29 318 May 31 to June 5 211 The week before last was a record week, but there were no indications that there wonld be a fall of 104 (nearly 33 per cent.) in the following week. Tho details of tho record week and last week aro:— Record Last Week. Week. I Monday 88 65 Tuesday 50 45 Wednesday 50 45 Thursday 33 * Friday 70 43 Saturday morning ... 27 16 Totals 318 214 •Holiday. However; recruiting is regarded as very satisfactory in the city. Four thousand two . hundred and twenty-six men have now enlisted in Wellington since war broke out, and last week's drop is attributable to the fact that men who enrol just now cannot got away immediately. Men who wish to enlist are almost always in a big liurry to get into tho fighting line. They leave no stone unturned to convince tho recruiting officer that they absolutely must be sent into camp right away, and when they arc finally told that their chance cannot come for a few months "they sometimes decide to withhold their enrolment awhile in case some other and unforeseen chance of getting away earlier presents itself. _ Wellington City has sent into camp its full quota for every force which has been called up, and has filled gaps in Gther quotas. Its quota for the Seventh Reinforcements, who are to go into Trentham Camp on June 14 has ■ been chosen, and yet there are so many men on tho books that if the call went forth to-morrow Wellington City could answer that its men for the Eighth and Ninth Reinforcements, and perhaps even the Tenth Reinforcements, had already enrolled. With 400 or 500 men waiting to be ordered to Trentham the prospects for newcomers at the Recruiting Office are not bright. After the Prime Minister's announcement that the Extra Force, now known as the Trentham Battalions, would be sent, recruiting went ahead rapidly in Wellington, but now (hat the enlistments have again got ahead of the positions available, the rate' of recruiting has slowed up. There is ft surplusage of recruits in Auckland also. At ths end of last month there were 302 men in Auckland who had been passed by the doctors as fit, but had not, been called up for service. The Mayor of Auckland has suggested to the Minister of Defence that tho military authorities should increase the number of men in training. He considers it startling that New Zealand has so far sent "only two per cent." of its population into trailing. The position in Auckland to-day seems to be [ that "the city could fill its quotas.right up to the Ninth Reinforcements forthwith'. So, in Auckland, military opportunity is almost', a,s scarce as in Wellington. Towards the end; of last'week it was 1 reported that Otago had made a- good ~ start in its recruiting for the Seventh Reinforcements, but at the beginning of the month the Otago Military Dis--1 trict required 250 infantry to complete ' its; quota. ; The Otago district has secured all the mounted men it requires | for the Seventh. : It may have been observed that when a quota is called up a small number of extra men are notified to attend the parade on the morning set , aside for sending the quota into camp. For instance, about twenty extra men aro required, to parade along with the city quota, for the Seventh. If any of • the men included n the selected quota fail to parade their places will be filled out of the extra twenty. Otherwise, none of tho extras will be needed. The ■ necessity for 'this arrangement will be seen in the fact that on, the morning 1 on which the Wellington quota for the Extra Force was to parade thirty-eight of those originally chosen were not present. In Auckland eleven of the quota failed to parade. YESTERDAY'S VOLUNTEERS. Forty-two men enlisted in Wellington , yesterday. Their names follow, and • those whose placo of residence is not mentioned are city men:-~ Stanley Arthur Maffey, steward, Auckland. i John Joseph Quinn, dentist. Hugh Kaig, railway surfacemen, Kaitoke. Donald Hall Nicholson, law clerk. Frederick Geo. Yco, butcher,' Somes Island. Claude C. Hill, Civil Servant. Howard Robert Crawford, tailor. Douglas Power, upholsterer, Berliampore. Richard-A. Chidley, assistant chemist Leonard Chas. Macklin, warehouseman. Gordon C. Cooke, accountant. Chas. Reeves, carpenter, Kaiwarra. Joseph Hannon, labourer. i. Frank Westerby, driver. s Wilfred Cutts, labourer. Henry Keates, labourer. '■ . John Witliey, Somes Island, guard. '• John Taylor. I Bertie Cutts, labourer. Leslie Leonard Perry, Fort Ballance. Marcus Levy, driver. i. John M'Kinnon, seaman. Win. F. Bucknell, Soines Island, guard. Benjamin Barker, seaman.' >. James Webster, seaman. , Harry Toomer, compositor, Fort Dor- '• set. Edward Morton, packer, Fort. Dorset. Win. Thos. Peet, motor mechanic, Fort Dorset. Neil Boyd, wire worker, Fort Dorset. Hector Heath Richardson, warehouseman. Johnsonville. Horace Edward Parsons, engineer. Henry J- D. Howard, butcher, Wei. South. s Colin Reid, compositor. Andrew Muir, mechanic, Fort Ballanoo, Ernest Ainsworth, fireman. Alfred Shearer, farmer, Karori, Robert H. Nilnmo, piano dealer. Geo. Win. Payne, labourer. Thos. Greensliields, seaman. Norman A. Stewart, carpenter. Geo. Johnson, wheelwright. John S. Tait, shepherd. h APPEAL TO CRICKETERS. BY CHAIRMAN OF CRICKET COUNCIL. £ (By Telegraph.—Prcsn Association.) Ghristchurch, .limo 7. 5- The following appeal to cricketpn 5, throughout the Dominion to offer tlieii services for the war has been JLfid .to tho local Mfie/S Sk Ceci.

1 Moon, chairman of the New Zealand ] Cricket Council:— "In asking you to allow me, as the executive head of New Zealand cricket, to uso your columns to appeal to tho cricketers throughout the Dominion to come ioiward to serve their King and country. I anl following the example of my friends, AY. G. Grace, A. C. Mao laren, and other well-known English cricketers. I only hopo that tho response may be as gratifying as it was in their case, at least 75 per cent, of the county cricketers at Home having joined the. colours, whilo practically all I are doing sonio work in connection with the Army. There has been some adverse comment in the newspapers recently on the meagre response by representative Australian cricketers to the call to arms, and while I do not wish to suggest that it is so serious ill the Dominion I am certain that there is much room for improvement. I quite understand that many who would otherwise have enlisted are prevented by family or business ties from doing su, and I am therefore, with the full approval of my colleagues, addressing this appeal, especially to unmarried cricketers between the ages of 20 and 30. When we wore all playing the game together last season it was not so easy as it is now to grasp the terrible urgency of the summons, vbut from my knowledge of New Zealand cricketers, I feel assured that after tho past ten months of bitter conflict and with the glorious deeds of their brothers at tho Dardanelles before them, it will not be necessary to furnish nny incentive to como forward at once furthw than to point out that they will be fighting for the very existence of tliat Empire to be citizens of which we are all so justly proud." POSITION IN OTACO. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedin, June 7. Recruiting for the Seventh Reinforcements has been very satisfactory, more than the required number liavms volunteered for service. The result is that for the first time a selection will have to be made- The following figures show the number who have volunteered. the number required to proceed ta Trentham next Saturday being given in parenthesis:—Mounted Rifles—Dunedin, 54 (20); Invercargill, 37 (25); Oamaru, 42 (35); Milton, 25 (25). Infantry—Dunedin, 141 (74); Invercargill, 124 (100); Oamaru, 88 (80); Miltoil. 39 (39).