THE CALL FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2646, 17 December 1915, Page 8

THE CALL FOR MEN

| . CITY'S POSITION 5 : WHAT LATEST RETURN SHOWS , Wellington City is finding men very slowly to fill its shortages in the iMevcntli Reinforcements. Yesterday fivo were sent into camp, and on the also, five went forward, .rho latest return prepared at the , Group office shows that there' are : ?, ii T 40 °- men available for the , -twelfth Reinforcements, who go into oainp in January. Only 39 of these, however, are infantry. _ The present state of the City books t is shown in the following table:— U •S • Otw W ti « § o c V 43 a ,'i| 9 ; 1 '8.8 Mounted 31 27 18 • • 9 Artillery 167 152 28 1 Engineers 61 61 16 — Signal Service.. 12 12 £j Infantry 45 39 41 17 f 1 S-C. 38 38 11 _ Ambulance 59 50 8 — Hospital Ship... 16 16 — _ Veterinary 7 5 1 l Ariay Pay Corps 3 — — _ Total 439 400 128 21 More Man for Camp. Ihe men who went into camp on Wed- ] neeaay and yesterday to make up shortages in the Eleventh are:— Signal Service: C. J. Byrne. H. Tamm, S. Westrupp, G. H. Selves, Michael Roche. Engineers: W. H. Watson. ■artillery: Vf. Cameron, A. Reid. Ambulance: G. Hales? Ambulance N. 0.0. for 13th Reinforcements: H. H. limes-Jones. . TN City's artillery quota has now been filled. Yesterday's Reorults. o- YeS .n orday ' s enrolments totals -a. lwenty-two of the names follow, and three did not desire publicity. Of the 22, 14 signed on for infantry Nearly all stipulated that they will go uito camp in January:— Samuel Westrupp, labourer, City (Infantry). George Henry Selves, dairy-farmer, City (Infantry). Percy Grainger, cook, City (Infantry). George Clarke, agent, City (Infantry). Francis Roy Alexander,-seaman. Citv 1 (Artillery). ( Norman Charles. Ward, carpenter. Upper .Hutt (Infantry). Harold Green, cabinetmaker, Hutt ' Road (Engineers). Jchn William Coleman, railway porter, Otalti (Infantry). H. L. Marbrook, audit examiner, Kelburi: (Engineers). . i Victor James M'Shane, labourer, City (Infantry). ' Liiwis B. Reynolds, railway porter, Kauioke (Engineers). G, Anderson, flaxmiller, City (Infan- 1 . • < Thomas Fitzgerald, City (Infantry). 1 C. E. Creswell, baker, City, (Artillery). 1 ..John Valentine Porter, photographer - (Infantry). . Albert B. Carter, labourer, Ngahau- j ranga (Infantry). j Thomas Ward, labourer, City (Man- t -try).. . t I "William'M. Robertson''farmer, Pao- 4 'kakariki (Veterinary Corps). o William Lighter," labourer, Newtown 1 (Infantry). el John Carroll, painter, Fort Ballance j 1 (Artillery). ' v, Cecil G. H. Robinson, clerk, City (In- o fantry). 8 Schoolmasters and Records. ■ 'A' number of schoolmasters whose holidays now begin have volunteered to b assist the City Group Office with its & records. Their offer has been accepted, C and :;hey commence work to-day. I ' Thsre is quite a lot of talk about Deo- ® pie exploiting the soldiers, but there is ? at least one Wellington business 'man ; who has' gone out of his to<t to offer con- 11 ce«3sil>na .to "our boys."Mr. A. B. M. HowUnd, jeweller, 90 Manners Street, of- • fers 15 per cent, special discount off all a soldiers' requisites, , such as . wristlet watches, binoculars, etc.—Advt. ■ ' I.