SUPPLY OF N.C.O.'S

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2634, 3 December 1915, Page 6

SUPPLY OF N.C.O.'S

NO SHORTAGE IN WELLINGTON MILITARY DISTRICT TRADESMEN & MAORIS Of; 183 non-commissioned . officers awaiting selection in- the Wellington Military District just before tlw n.c.o.'s •for the Thirteenth Reinforcements were caMed up, 106 wore on the Wellington City, hooks and 44 were'oil the Manawatu.books, leaving,only 33 as coming from the other groups in the district. The .following figures show the disparity in the numbers of candidates the groups hadifor n.c.o. appointments:— N.C.O.'s waiting. Group 5 (City) 106 Group 6 (Manawatu) V 44 Group' 7. (Hawse's Bay ... 2 Group 7a (Wairarapa) 13 Group 8 (Taranaki) 18 Total-: 183 Over half the candidates wished to join the infantry' or the mounted arm. Not for any arm was there a district shortage. The numbers, available, and the numbers required, were: — ! N.C.O.'s N.C.O.'s \ i- Wanted. Waiting. Over. Mounted ......... 8 -29 21'

The City and Manawatu lad no dearth of men for their n.c.o. quotas, Wairarapa had little more than enough candidates, Taranaki had' enough, and Bawka's Bay was four short. TRADESMEN FOR THE FRONT. Tile details of tradesmen registered in th 6 "Wellington military district as fit and available for the noxfc draft in the: Artillery, Engineers, and Signal Service Arms: are; —

... For'A.S'.C;', Veterinary Corpse Ambulance, and Hospital Ship, the district has tho following' numbers of fit and available tradesmen registered:— Hos-Veter-Ambu-pital A.S.C. inary. lance. Ship.'

FEW MAORIS BOOKED. Very few Maoris are registered in the Wellington district at present. At the end of last week 1 there were 17 fit, six of whom were available for fhs next draft. There were, also, three who had not been examined. None were on the waiting list in Wellington City,_ there were five fit Maoris registered in the Manawatu, one fit .and three ■ not. examined in Taranaki, none in Haivke's Bay, and none in Wairarapa.

Artillery 3 ' 31 28 Engineers 3 20 17 Signal Service 19 8 Infantry 27 66 39 A.S.C — 16 16 Ambulance. 2 8 6 Hospital Ship — 1 1 Vet. Corps — 1 1 Skilled 'runnel- / lers — 7 1 Machino Gunners — 1 1 Totals ...44 183 139 The group registrations of n.c.o.'s were: 5 6 7 7a 8 Mounted 13 7 1 5, 3 Artillery 25 5 — — 1 Engineers ,10 5 — — '5 Signal Service 5 — — 4 ' — Infantry ... 35 20 — 3 8 A.S.C 11 3 1 1 - Ambulance 6 2 — — — Hospital Ship —, .1 — —. — Veterinary Corps.. 1 — — — — Skilled Tunnellers — 1 — — — Machine Gunners — — — — 1 106 44' 2 13 18

.'Artil- Engin-Signal lery. eers. Service. Gunners '70 — — ' Blacksmiths — 2 — I Bricklayers ...... — 2 —,, 1 Carpenters : —■ 9 — . Coopers — 1 — Clerks , — 6 '. v — 1 Draughtsmen ... — 2 — ' Drivers ..102' 12 . — Electricians ; — 2 — Enginedrivers ... — ■ 4 ' — Fitters. — 4" — Field Engineers — 12 — Motor-cyclists ... — 8 1 . Motorists-; — 1 —. I'lumbors 1 —*. Surveyors ....... —" 3' — Sif;nailers_. — — . 14 Telegraphists ... — — G , Telo. Linesmen —. — , 2 Wlxoehrriglrts ... — 1 1 — Totals'' 172 70 23

Blacksmiths ... 3 — — — Bricklayers ... 1 — — — Bakers 5 — — — Butchers 5 — 1 — Carpenters .... 3 . — • — — Clerks : 19 - 11 2 Cooks ......... 6 — 2 —. Drivers 34 — — —■ Dressers — — 1 2 Dispensers ... — — 11 4 Dentists — — 3 — Engine-drivers 1 — : ' — — Fitters 2 — -i — — Trained Ambulance men ... — — 42 2 Motor-cyclists 11 — — — Motorists ..... 7, . — — — Mon Nurses ... — — 2 .1 Painters ' 2. — — — Plumbers 5 — — — . , Saddlers 3 — — — Shoemakers ... 1 — — — Tinsmiths 1 — — — Veterinarians — 5 — —, Totals 109 5 73 11