"FEELING IS GOOD."

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2604, 28 October 1915, Page 6

"FEELING IS GOOD."

PROGRESS OF RECRUITING

PRIME MINISTER OPTIMISTIC

A brief statement of his opinions 011 tlio present progress of recruiting was given by tile Prime Minister to a Dominion reporter yesterday. "From correspondence which Ims readied me," said Mr. Massey, "1 have formed the impression that, speaking generally, the feeling with regard to recruiting throughout the country is good. The appeals that have been .made, t'he operation of the National Registration Act, and the good work being done by recruiting organisations, are bringing homo tlio seriousness of tho crisis to all those who are able to lake up arms, and 1 am informed that large numbers who a few months ago never dreamt that their services would be required are now making the necessary arrangements to enable them to enlist. My information is that a good many will come in after the Christmas holidays, and a still large number about tho end of February, when most/of tho shearing and harvesting will have been finished. Now that four-weekly drafts have been arranged for the facilities for getting into camp will bo very much bettor than in the past, and there need be no long waits after enlistment. 1 have sufficient confidence in the young men of the Dominion to beliove that they will do their duty, and that a large proportion of tiicin will follow the example of their comrades who are already in the fighting line, and who have made the name of New Zealand famous in every part of tho British Dominions."

WELLINGTON'S RESPONSE. YESTERDAY'S GOOD TOTAL. Recruiting at the city depots has been fairly brisk of late. Tiio Town Hall ofl'ico seems to find full favour amongst the soldiers to be, having sinco its inception a little over a fortnight ago, registered some .628 recruits. Over a period of four days—from Saturday last until yesterday afternon — the enlistments at both offices numbered 200. The proportion of "fits" over that period to those passed out as unfit and those who have yet failed to return their medical papers is shown us under: — . Registrations 200 "Fit" 101 "Unfit" 61 Not returned papers 38 ' It is the intention of the Defence Department to in future only allow publication of the names of those re:ruits who are passed as fit. The latest registrations of .those marked fit' are as follow:— Herbert Hatchard, letter-carrier, City. John Charles Freoney, labourer, City. Charles Horace Jones, groom, City. John Hyde, tailor, City. William Ferguson Hogg, law clerk, City. Charles Hermon Aamodt, warehouseman's assistant, City. Frederick Smith, labourer, Lower Hutt. Patrick Ryan, labourer, City. John Cochran, driver, City. Leopold Cecil Morgan, architect, Blenheim. William Baldey, cook, Newtown. John- Mayben Hamilton, carponter, Wanganui. Archer Edward Wilkins, shepherd, City.

Ernest Lovell Loyell, labourer, City. Edward Mooro, Civil Servant, City. William Meuton. labourer, Newtown. Francis Hughes," labourer, City. Henry Warman Bennett, mechanic, City. ' • Wilfred Henry Jenkins, law clerk, City. • Frederick Lawrence Highstead, farmer, Paraparaumu. John Henry Skilter, clerk, City. Alfred George Bowater, clerk, City. David Leslie Bent, mechanic, City. Alfred Thomas Stratton, Civil Servant, City. ; James M'Garry, labourer, City. Harry Hoblyn, seaman, City. Ernest Alfred Lee, bricklayer, City. Benjamin Symons, railway servant, Nowtown.. Alfred Philip Russell, printer, City. Edward Neugent, fire brigadesman, City. Bertie Hydes Hanson, firo brigadesman. City. _ Thomas George Jones, fire brigadesman, City. Leslie James Barnard, labourer, Ngahauranga. Arthur Anderson, theatrical employee, City. .

lCeitli Dudley Russell, clerk, City. William Robert Millier, clerk, City. Axel. Julius Sundback, ■ freezer, Ngahauranga. George Bruce Dall, student, City. George Hughes, cook, City. Ernest Williaim Killick, motorman, Newtown. George Evan Valker, cook, City. Albert Walker, contractor, City. Peter Hansen, ■ sailor, City. B. Walter M'Farlane, farmer, Johnsonvillo. James Hamilton, farm-hand, Upper Hutt. John Lynch, labourer, Trentham. William James Capon, confectioner, City. . i William Ivor Dougall, confectioner, Berhampore. Herbert William G. Dowland, carpenter, Karori. • Robert Henry Wellsford, wood machinist, City. Daniel Gunn Wakefield, labourer, Petone. William liickey, labourer, Petone. Francis Joseph Coatman, tram conductor, City. John M'Clen, tram conductor, City. Albert Edwards Turner, tram conductor, Newtown. Cyril Percy- Furbcr, tram conductor, Berhampore. Charles Crossley Cox, orchardist, City. Thomas David Mockford, labourer, Petone. Eric Lindsay Kelly, clerk, City. Roginald Percy Parnell, engineer, City. John- Joseph Henry Murray, labourer, Johnsonville. William Charles S. Robinson, attendant, Porirua Mental Hospital. • George Charles Brown, fireman, Union Steam Ship Co., City. William Leslie, labourer, City. Arthur William Switzer, clerk, City. Frederick Il.enry Paddy, glass leveller, City. Herbert John Colgato, chef, City. Percy Hutchinson Wood, clerk, City. Jolni James Pennell, engine-driver, Paekakariki. Gordon Primross Crawford, sheepfarmer, City. Henry Stanhope Bernard. Lawrence Alguist, steward, City. Thomas Alexander Macdonald, telegraph linesman, Newtown. Humphrey Cotter, driver, City. William Arthur P. Lorick, shunter, City. , . Alfred Bruce Thompson, hairdresser, City. i Percy Martin. : 111 the list 1 of recruits published on Tuesday the name John Patrick Sluiley was incorrectly printed as John Patrick Shecley.