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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2703, 24 February 1916, Page 6

In example of soldierly keenness and enthusiastic efficiency was noted at tho funeral of the late.Private T. E. Moore yesterday. It would have escaped tlio casual oyo, perhaps, but the fact is tbafc F Coiiipiuiy, 13tli Reinforcements* had had but a few days' training when they were called 011 to furnish the firing_ party and escort for the burial of their late comrade. Some of the men had never handled a rifle till Friday last, and all were mors or less ignorant of tie ceremonial prescribed for suck occasions. Nevertheless ttay set to work to learn the drill, and duly performed their melancholy office with the disciplined tread and ceremonial alertness of years of eei vice. At a meetiijg of the Dunedin (% Council last night, after an address on the new recruiting scheme had been g»en by the Hon. J. Allen, a 'notion was carried heartily supporting the pro posals of the Government. A "omimtteo was set up to confer with the Rec,"luting Committee of the Otago Patriotic Association.—Press Association. Mr. Melville Robertson, youngest son , of Mr. James Robertson, of Palmorstou North, ■ died afc Clareville on Wednesday morning, at the age of _ twenty-seven years. He leaves a. widow, but jo childron. Tlie deceased was a brother of Mr. Vs. M. Halley, of the Taratahi Hotel. Among the list of Aucklanders mentioned by Sir lan Hamilton in his dispatch on the Dardanelles operations appeared the name of Rollepp, of the Auckland Mounted Rifles. This should have been Sergeant R.'R.' Carr Rollett, of 'the machine-gun section, who was killed on the night of August 27 whilst gallantly working his gun single-handed 1 against the Turks, the remainder of his seotioii having fallen under the heavy fire of the enemy. , It is stated that a man with a cork leg presented himself at the Hull Recruiting Office, passed through the for-' malities which hundreds of thousands underwent recently, and received ths customary. '2s. 9d. to seal the contract. Though possessing an artificial limb, the recruit walked so well that his physical unfitness was not detected. Tlio paymaster lias jocularly remarked that lie did not think of concealing an assistant beneath the table to tap tlio legs of recruits.