CITY RECRUITING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2563, 10 September 1915, Page 6

CITY RECRUITING

5000 IN THE FIRST YEAR PRESENT RATE GREATER While there has been no actual boom in recruiting in Wellington for some little timo, the rate .of enlistment has been very steady and very satisfactory, and good progress has been made. In the first year of the call for men Wellington City and suburbs gathered in 5000 recruits. Up to yesterday 5600 men had passed through the office here. In the last two weeks 300 men have enlisted, which is at the rate of 25 daily. If the present rate is maintained, Wellington will enrol nearly 8000 men in the current war year, so wo have the pleasing prospect* of seeing, t'lie City handsomely break its fine record of last year. In tho future the recruiting office proposes to offer to the Press tor publican tion only the names of enlisters who have been passed-as fit'for active service. . New Plymouth, claims that its district has sent to the front and the military camps more men in proportion to its population than any other district. , The Hamilton district had at the beginning of this • week 50 mounted men and 217. others on the books awaiting orders to go. into camp. The following have enlisted in lington:—Chas. Arthur Elvines, engineer, City. James Orr, eeltarman, City. Joseph Rait-, seaman, City. ■Arthur Oswald Richardson, grain store manager, Newtown. Harold Geo. Soarn, driver, City.