MEN FOR THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2490, 17 June 1915, Page 6

MEN FOR THE WAR

LIGHT ON THEIR CHANCES A HEAVY WAITING LIST As compared with enlistments during Way recruiting this week in Wellington is slack. When thcro appeared to be nn immediate need for moil the registrations in tho City averaged eloso oil to sixty per day; now the enlistments are down to about thirty per day. Yesterday twenty-six men enlisted. On Monday last there were 810 surplus men on the City books waiting to be, called up. Since then over fifty men have registered. Quite thirty of these will eventually pass the doctor, fio that the surplus to-day stands at 8-10. The Wellington City quota for every reinforcement draft is about 140, Which means that the City has- on the waiting list enough men to fill six Reinforcement drafts. The seventh draft is in camp, and when six more follow tho thirteenth will bo in training. So, the men who hand iu their names now are enlisting in the Fourteenth Reinforcements. The reinforcement drafts aro to bo sent into Trentham camp thus:— Eighth Reinforcements, in August, 1813. Ninth Reinforcements in October, 19] 5. Tenth Reinforcements in December. 1015. Eleventh Reinforcements in February, 1916. Twelfth Reinforcements in April, 1916. Thirteenth Reinforcements in June, 1916. Fourteenth Reinforcements in August, 1916. Tho 840 men on the books .ire sufficient to supply our needs up to and including the Thirteenth Reinforcements. On tho present training arrangements the men would not reach the firing line for six months after going to Trentham. Tho only prospcct of the long wait being shortened is the chance of a heavier draw than 140 every.two montliß being plaoed on the City through shortage elsewhere, or through a readjustment of the quotas. The total number ,of men who have enlisted in Wellington since the outbreak of war is now 4452. YESTERDAY'S VOLUNTEERS. The twenty-six men who* enlisted in Wellington yesterday we're:— Horace H. Hargood, Civil Servant. Andrew Barry, farm labourer, Taranaki. Malcolm Neil Armit, Civil Servant. Cecil Henry Bourke, dentist. John Fabling, driver. James Josepn Tuohy, driver, Upper Hutc. Thomas Harlani, labourer. Clark Allan, train conductor, Newtown. Leslie C. Binning, elcrk. Fred Bowtell, labourer. William .Tames, Walter Clayton, farm labourer, Lower Hutt. George Percy Cecil Evans, mariner. , Ledisten, James De Clifford, railway clerk, Northland. Henry Charles Brewer, farmer. Ernest Reuben Jacobson, builder, Berhampore. James William Scott, driver, Newtown. Charles Percival Kent, fish salesman, Hiorndon. Frank Carter, packman, Petone. Ernest Thomas, painter. Hugh Collins, accountant, Island Bay. Arthur Turner, steward. Alex Kennedy, trimmer. Ben. Thomas Winett, seaman. Frederick Lewis Eastcge, carpenter, I'ongaroa. George Lambert, Harbour Board employce.