RECRUITING

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2886, 26 September 1916, Page 6

RECRUITING

—_ + ADDITIONAL MEN REACHING CAMP MANY MORE REQUIRED ■ Some additional drafts for tie 21st Reinforcements arc- to reacli camp Today. The military districts were asked by the Defence Department to provido enough men to cover tho shortages reported last week, hut reports that have como to hand already indicate that the deficiency of some 650 men will not be wiped out, though it may be substantially reduced. A great deal depends upon tho response made by registered men in. the Wellington Mili'ary District, which has a shortage of over 300 recruits. If all tho mon who have been called roach camp to-day,, tho position will be made fairly satisfactory ; if not, tho recruiting organisations will bo required to make another big effort. Scarcely any recruiting was done in Wellington City yesterday, partly owing to tho and partly owing to the fact that the recruiting organisation was i in a transition stage. Tho Citizens' .Recruiting Offico at the Town Hall lias been closed under circumstances described in another column, ancTthe Chief Recruiting Office, formerly stationed at the Buckle Street Barracks,- was being moved to the Town Hall, wTiero.it was opened late in the afternoon in No'. 1 Committee Room, on tho ground floor at the northern end of tho building. Lieutenant 0. W. Mellor has been placed in charge of this offico, which will be, open daily for the registration and attestation of recruits under the new system. The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luko) has cordially extende3 flic- hospitality of the city to the Defenco Department in this matter, and has offered the use of other parts of tho building if they should be required. The following additional recruits have been accepted for service in Group 5 (Wellington City and Suburbs) :— J. H. Jamieson, farmer, (Sty. . W. Potter, seaman, City. H. J. Sullivan, engineer, Petone. P. Crane, labourer, City. H. A. Macdonald, printer, City. A. Fuller, clerk, City. H. A. Calvin, clerk, City. 0. J. Tosher, policeman, City. H. D. Thorn, policeman, City. W. Scarr, commercial traveller, Kilbirnie. A. T. Baker, miner, City. H. F. Priddy, bricklayer, City. THE NEW SYSTEM EVERY MAN TO TAKE THE OATH. Tho new system of recruiting, requiring every man registering for sornce to take the oath of allegiance, camo into operation yesterday. The. change is intended to meet the serious difficulty caused by tho failuro of registered _ men to report on the day of mobilisation. Tho Defenco Department in tho past has had no hold over a man until he was actually in camp, .ind tho "wastage" between the time of registration and the arrival of drafts at Trentham or Foatherston has been substantial. In the future tho recruit will become a soldier, subject to military discipline, _at the timo of registration, and will be merely on leave until he is called up for training. All men who are already registered and passed as lit for service are to bo required to take the oath of allegiance. These armletted men will be called: together in batches by the group officers during the next and formally attested. Tho attesting officers are being _ specially appointed, and all hold commissions in tho Now Zealand Forces, 'fhe regulations provide that registered men who wero passed as fit more than three months ago must undergo a further medical examination before they are attested. Pay for Recruits. When v a recruit takes the oath under the new system he will receive one day's pay as a member of the Expeditionary. Forces, amounting to ss. Tho rules laid down in this connection are as follow:— (1) Men who aro already registered and are medically fit will be called up for attestation and,given pay. (2) Those men on the books who have not yet been medically examined will be notified that they must re-enlist. (3) Men who are obviously unfit aro not to be medically examined, and will not receivo pay. (4) Men who have previously registered for service and have been rejected, as medically unfit will only be given pay if they are passed 'as medically fit for servico abroad. (5) Every man who registers for the first time, aiid those who previously registered and did not undergo medical examination, will be given pay whether they pass as fit for home or active sorivice, or are classed as unfit. The minimum sum payable to a man under these conditions will bo one day's pay (55.), but provision is made for tho payment of additional days' pay, as well as. travelling expenses, in the cases of men who aro forced to be away from home for more than a singlo clay. Only thosqmen who are of military age who have been passed as fit, and who, if married, have not more than three children, are to ho attested. Under Discipline. After a man has registered, taken tho oath and received his pay warrant, he will be handed a leavo pass in the ordinary form. His status until-the day of mobilisation will ho that of a soldier on leave, without pay. Tho man will state which draft ho wishes to join, his choice being limited to the three drafts succeeding tho date of his enlistment, and when ho is called up he must appear on penalty of boiug treated as a desorter. A man who has been selected as a probationary' noncommissioned officer and who does not appear on tho day of mobilisation will be sent into camp at onco' as a private unless ho can show good reason for his failuro. The new conditions will make it unnecessary for the Defenco Departmont to summon men ill'excess of actual requirements when n draft is being mobilised. Tho whole of the men called up may be oxpeoted to appear, and the authorities havo decided, therefore, that tho list of recruits for each draft shall be closed as soon a s it is full. ,

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