THE CALL FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2572, 21 September 1915, Page 6

THE CALL FOR MEN

CITY'S RECORD 7000 HAVE NOW ENLISTED To keep up the strength of its Main Expeditionary Force New Zealand has sent eight reinforcement drafts into camp. Wellington City has enrolled enough men to form three or four of those drafts. Certainly tin's is a proud record. The total number of men who havo now registered in the City is 7000. In tho last five weeks 1900 men havo handed in their names, which shows tho recruiting to have, been proceeding at tho rate of 380 weekly. These are tho best figures Wellington has j)(it up. The previous record was a little over 300 in a week. Howover, not by any means 100 per cent, of tlio men whose names go down oil tlio register got into camp. Men visit the. recruiting ofTico, receive their papers, and are requested to tako them to one of tho military doctors, and return them after examination Somo of those men's papers do not como back. Others return with "unfit" written where tlio doctor makes his mark.

Lately, it is understood, tlio percentage of rejections in" Wellington -has been fairly high, and this, coupled with tlio fact that some men do not return their papers, brings the City's figures down somewhat. Nevertheless, there is a good number of men who are "unfit" merely technically, aud can have their troubles remedied,, and there arc other good men who have only failed slightly in matters of measurement. . Still, it is considered that Wellington's quota for the next lot of troops called up may not be as high per cent, as its quota for the Eighth Reinforcements. Men who enlisted yesterday were:— Robert Ross, labourer, City. 1 Richard' Hutchinson, labourer, Marlborough. .." Joseph E.'Pointon, butcher, City. John Nelson Foster, railway porter, City. ' , ;. Arthur John Henry Swain, science student, Lower llutt.

There is a call by tho military for compotent ambulance instructors to train ambulance corps in New Zealand. Men willing to servo may apply to Major Corrigan at the Garrison Hall, or to the recruiting officer (Sorgt.'Major Johnson). About" 45 ambulance men are to be called lip in Wellington to go into camp almost immediately.' Surgeon-Major Elliott will make the selection from the men paraded for his .-xaminatiion.