THE CALL FOR MEN
STILL 63 SHORT MORE INFANTRYMEN GO TO CAMP ' i • LATEST RECRUITS Six more recruits were sent to Trentharn training camp yesterday from tlie AVellington Military district.. All were infantrymen., Up till yesterday afternoon the 'shortage for Wellington's quota' for the Fifteenth Reinforcements amounted to 63 Infantry. Following are. the names of the men who left for camp yesterday: l —J. Sim, A. J. Knight, J Orsborn, W. Pollock, M. Ritchless, and A. Wilson. Latest Recruits. The following were enrolled at Buckle Street yesterday as. being fit for active 1 service:— Alfred C. Turnbull, Civil Servant, City (Infantry). ■ Albert John Knight, labourer, Lower Hutt (Infantry). ■ ■ ' Reginald. Rutler, draper, Island Bay (Infantry). ' F. J: Saunders, labourer (Infantry). H-. H. Moss, motor driver, Miramar (Infantry). 'Phobias Green, laboratory assistant, City (Mounted). William Pollock, baker, City (Infantry).. .. ; ; , ' , DISCOURAGING SHIRKERS ' A,HUNT CLTJB'S RESOLUTION. By Telegraph.—(Special Correspondent.) . Wanganui, April 12. With a view to discouraging shirkers the Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club has passed the following'drastic resolution: "That ■ the EgmontWanganui Hunt Club .will not accept any new members who are! eligible for active service, and will also' refuse to allow non-members who are eligible,, to' ride and qualify horses belonging to members."' CANVASS IN KIWITEA. .By Telegraph—Press' Association. ' . Feiltiing, April 12. The Feilding Recruiting Officer re. ports that a house canvass in the Kiwitea distriot left only three eligible single men wjio were not enlisting. Two re. fused to give their reasons, anil tho third objected on religious grounds. A. E. -Si. 'Eowlarid, the Public Service Optician and' Jeweller, has been appointed spectacle maker to the Wellington Hospital. _ Further, the_ firm offers 15 per cent, discount to soldiers and their friends when purchasing for them. See Kowland's "Get-rich-quick Rale," 90 Manners Street.—Advt. - ■
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2745, 13 April 1916, Page 6
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288THE CALL FOR MEN Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2745, 13 April 1916, Page 6
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