THE CALL FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2640, 10 December 1915, Page 6

THE CALL FOR MEN

GIT'S POSITION QUOTA NOT BEOUHEDF YET The. position of tie Wellington (By - jroup m regard' ;to recruiting for the Eleventh Reinforcements seems to be ■.-,...■ less satisfactory than it was. a week , ago. On Deoember 2 it was reported that there were 129 infantry fit and available for the eleventh .draft. The latest return -shows . 11l available infantry; 144 are required. > The present state of the City books is:— 7T Fit Week's & avail- N.c.o.'s Beable for wait- jecFit.Dec.l4. ing.tions. Mounted 71 60 18 '4 'Artillery .;.... 189 147 31 2 148 143 . 16. .1 • Signal Service 15 15 6.'. 1 Infantry' 152 111 54 13 47 - 47 11 2 : 'Ambulance ... 57.' ' 57- 8„ : . 3 Hospital Ship .43 '43 — .— .Veterinary ... 3 3 ■ 1 ■ — Totals 720 626 135 26 The numbers of men available for the (Eleventh, compare -with the numbers 'required as follow: — . . Required. Secured.. Mounted ........... 34 60 Artillery '31 147 Engineers 14 143 . Signal Servioe .... 6 , 15 - Infantry 144 • 111 A.S.C. 5 47 I ■ Ambulance : 8 ' . 67 Totals® 242. 580' So, at present' the City-is thirty- ; three short of its infantry quota. ' LATSET ENLISTMENTS. The city group needs twenty more in r .fantry to proceed to ■ Trentham to-day mid .to-morrow to fill. gaps in the' Tenth Reinforcements The following fit recruits .were enrolled in the city yesterday:— Walter Geo. Rhodder, City (Home '. .Service). •R. 6. Wallace; draper, Otaki (dis- ! penser). ■ - . ' ■ Maurice Philpott (Infantry)., . Clias.'E. Hansen, cook, City (Infan- . try). ! i Norman W. Cliappoll, telegraph cadet, ■'.yity (Mounted).... - , • 'Edmund Montgomery, .seedsman,, . City (Infantry). - A fine patriotic spirit is evident in Mr. Rowland's splendid offer of 15 per cent, r -discount to Soldiers on-- all trade lines. fWristlet watches from 10s., with radium . dials from 225. 6d. Take advantage of ...this generous offer, and visit A. E. M. Rowland, Jeweller; .'9O ".Manners ' Street, -Welliugvon:—Advt;