THE CALL FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2827, 19 July 1916, Page 6

THE CALL FOR MEN

. YESTERDAY'S RESPONSE. "The latest' men who have been passed is fit for active • servico are as follow Cr. A. Johnston, contractor, city. ..".It. Collins, shepherd, Taihape. R,. J. Curtice, electroplator, city.' E. W. Lie* railway clerk, city. .A. W. Tompkins, farmer, city. H. E. Black, traveller, city. SOUND POSITION. STATEMENT BY RECRUITING • . ' BOARD. The Recruiting Board forwards the following statement:— • . Nineteenth Reinforcement, which mobilises for training uost week, is now complete. As a matter of fact, there has been an excess of registrations in \6omo groups, with the result that the . draft for the whole Dominion will go into oamp over strength. The official • figures of the registrations for the infantry, all other arms of| the service being full, as at date of Friday, July 14, ' are as follow:— Group No. 1 (Auckland City), complete; Group No, 2 (Paeroa), complete; Group No. 3 (Whangarei), shortage 8; Group No. 4 (Hamilion), complete. Total shortage for Auckland military district, 8. Group No. 5 (Wellington City), sur- .) plus 20; Group No. C (Palmerston North), surplus 34; Group No. 7 (Napier), shortage 28; Group No. 7u (Jfasterton), surplus 22; Group No. 8 (llawora), surplus 15. Total surplus for Wellington military district, (i 9. . Group No. 9 (Christchurch City), sur- - plus 7; Group No. 10 (Tijnaru), surplus 4; Group No. 11 (ICaiapoi), shortage 2; Group No. 11a (Greymouth), shortage 21; Group No. 12 (Nolson), surplus 23. Total surplus for Canterbury military 'district, 11. Group No. 13 (Duncdin City), Shortage 17; Group No. 14 (Invercargill), shortage 1; Group No. 15 (Oainaru), shortage 1; Group No. 1G (Milton), complete. Total shortage for Otago military dis- ■ trict, 19. • The total Dominion surplus for tho • Nineteenth Reinforcement, 53. Registrations for tho Twentieth. Reinforcement are bow well in hand in most of the gToups. Tho Board wishes to impress on recruiting committees tho urgefit necessity of keeping up the flow of • recruits, as it will be 6orae tinio yet before tho preparations for bringing the Military Service Act into operation will "be completed. This work is now in progress, but in tho meantime and until the compulsory provisions of the Act can ibo enforced, it is essential theTe should be no slackening off in enlistments. AVo have now reached the stage in the great struggle when it is more than ever neccasary to maintain our forco in the field at full strength.