THE CALL FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2777, 23 May 1916, Page 7

THE CALL FOR MEN

MAKING UP DEFICIENCIES

YESTERDAY'S RESPONSE

Recently the Defence authorities made a call on the various recruiting districts for another 200 men to go into camp at iSrentham, and it was poorly responded to by the AVellington and Canterbury military districts. Auckland was asked to supply 53 men, Wellington 67, Canterbury 47, and Otago 33. Auckland responded with 47 and Otago with 17. Wellington supplied 13, while Canterbury did not send a mail in. The districts mentioned have now been requested to mako up their respective deficiencies and to send the men into camp with the 17th Reinforcements nest week. Auckland and Otago have supplied full quotas for the lGth Reinforcements. Wellington military district, however, is still 86 short, and Canterbury 68. Seeing that Wellington City and Suburbs Group up till yesterday had sent 22 men over and above its quota into camp for the Seventeenths; the local authorities do not anticipate that the difficulty of supplying the extra men will be insurmountable. Yesterday's Enlistments, Thirty-three men enlisted at the headquarters recruiting office for No. 5 Group Area yesterday. Of that number 10 were declared unfit by the medical examiners and three were reported temporarily unfit. • The names of the 20 men who passed the doctor as being medicallj fit are:— A. P. Robertshaw, billiard proprietor, City. R. Duncan, clerk, City. T. Martin, mechanic, City. D. Handtey, slaughterman, Lowe! Hntt. .S. Nankivell, labourer, City. J. S. Scanbury, cook, Kilbirnie. J. E. Pitt, saddler, City. W. Menton, labourer, City. L. D. Page, draper, Kelburn. T. Logie, miner; City. C. A. Coleman, engineer. City. R. B. Eberhardt, mechanic, City, J. A. Robertson, carpenter, Kilbirnie, S. Tracey, labourer, City. T. E. Beard, student. City. . A. Drury, , City. J. W. Nelson, labourer, City. F. C. Ja'ntuck,- grocer, City. C. H. Faulkner, cook, City. J. R. Baker, motor mechanic, City. Men Sent into Camp. ■' No. 5 Group Area Headquarters' Recruiting Office sent seven men into camp yesterday to join the 16th Reinforcements. Their names are as followH. Reeve, P. J. Selway, G. Sharkey, J. Burnett, A. 15. Devine, J'. A. O'Connor, and R. E. Morrison,

RECRUITING GOOD AT TOWN HALL A LIVELY WEEK. last week was one of the briskest ireeks for recruiting experienced at the Chief recruiting office at the Town Hall, 283 men having been put through the books. These, liowever, ore not all eligible to be called on for service, as a proportion of them were turned down as unfit for active service. The numbor of the men who have offered their services during the past fortnight in Wellington totals 502. The numbers in January and February fell as low as from eight to ten recruits per day. Up till Saturday evening 3318 men had been recruited at the Town Hall.

Binoculars, and Wristlet Watches for soldiers may be obtained at a discount of 15 per cent. (3s. in the £) from A. E. M. Rowland, the Public Service Jeweller and Optician, 90 Manners Street (opp. Everybody's Pictures).—Advt.