THE CALL FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2747, 15 April 1916, Page 6

THE CALL FOR MEN

STILL MORE INFANTRY

WANTED

. L 'YESTERDAY'S,RECRUITS," r 1;

ii 'Wellington District No. 5 - Group [ -'Area supplied three more men yesteri : day towards its'quota for the Fifteenth I Reinforcements, making the shortage in ; this particular group area SG. Infantry- ■■■. men are wanted,' according to - the Dei- 1 : fonoe Headquarters,and. Tvanted.bndly, ito make up theshortago-which is being I • . decreased slowly daily. Any medically .fit man 'who registers will, be sent into :■ camp at once. j j Following are the names of the three. I ' men who were sent into Trentham Camp i> by the 1.20 p.m. tram yesterday:— '-. Charles Smith, E. King,- and K. C. VT : Pegg. . ELEVEN NEW RECRUITS ACCEPTED. •Out of 18 -iecruitsv who .registered their .names vw'itK. tho'Vecruitlng- officer at Buckle' Street,. 11. were "declared' fit,. C. 3 temporarily, unfit, and 4 unfit for ac- •- tivo military service...The names oE- !■ the fit men are as follow.— • ' Thomas George '. Crates.. labourer, i . City (Infantry). :• Edward Robert Davis, slaughterman, ' Petone (Infantiy). i r0 Arthur; John .'Bland, .'railway', officer, -v.; Gitv (Armv Service. Pay' Department). !, ;■■■' Edward Hughes, cooper, City • (Infan try). i < Robert James Bowles, waterside !' .worker, City (Infantry).. i James W. F.- Donnelly, hairdresser, -i [ ' City (Infant-iy;). g • Charles " Smith; itehman, City (In- [:. fantrv). " I • Archibald Donald Colquhoun, en-gmeerv-Pefone..(Artillery), i. [;.; - .trimmer, • City (Infantry). " |. E: -Ri Nicholson, City; shipping olerk ;■ (Infantry);-. • ■.• ■■■■'. r George Pudney, dentist, City (Infantry). . • | ; tfOR ACTIYE SERVICE , : t PIidSPECTSjOPj Ifith.REINFORQi : S" L •®w'v^ , ; i 4^^en;to.s^B.?W eHington; :lCS^3bopff-wai^m§ .oalleil up, and .'ineii r f6r*, J Eemfor6.%ents:v'JpJi^^atVmaiopty.^flf; h the service for- which' they-are-not-want- 1 j; vedl 'the.'Mduht'edi Rifles; -Ar-' 5 Xillery, . and Engineers, . whilo a large - number* have''stipulatedthat" they .are: to serye with the-infantry: at a later date..,; In the face. of. the above i facts,the-.'prospfectsof,raising,'the city!s -quota..for. the Sixteenth Reinforcements, Z> as- far as 'the'-infantry'-is', oonoerned, ; -is ! not considered bright,: especially.-when--1". ■ ..the "latter. ■■ reinforcements ; have' to " parade ;for_ camp in threo weeks' time.. ,

[ WHAT WELLINGTON HAS DONE. t?x Sinco the beginning of the war, Welj.:. lington City and Suburbs, up .to' April' | 10, 1916, had-sent , nearly 6000 men on !' active service, which is held to be a. [: * very creditable r record; • -The actual p ; figures, showing -the 'total - registrations, :• /number of 'ifien' sent ;ori, active service, ! rejects, etc:, up to April 10' are as uni ' der; — • • / ■ ■ i Total; registrations 8891 jJ/ Sent on, active 1 service 5967. i Pormanents sent to camp . 103 | linfit and other, losses ............ 2355 | n -. Waiting to be called up 466 •■••■• The total registrations.'and those,sent, on-active-service include a large number' | of men .of the Samoan Advance Force, !\ who upon their return re-enlisted for | : service abroad. These figures have [./ ..therefore- been';, counted itwice.;; ' The P.;, total number- of - men- sent to -Samoa ! was 600. 'The 2355 meii/who have been f declared/'unfit,:'and_ other losses, ■ inr- / elude all those ' rejected on medical j grounds, double and triplicate (some- | . : times more) -registrations, •; and- those who, when called up, have' failed to j respond. . ■ A. • E.-Mr Eowland, the Public' Service ! Optician and Jeweller, has been appoint;ed spectacle' maker to the Wellington Hospital. Further, the firm offers 15 per K-: cent, discount, to soldiers and, their friends t.:- ; when purchasing- for them. -See Eoiv- |: landJs '.'Get-rich-iiuick Sale," 90,iManners.. j- % .Street.— Advt.; ... .