THE REINFORCEMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 9 October 1918, Page 5

THE REINFORCEMENTS

MOBILISATION ARRANGEMENTS. ■ Inquiries that, have reached the Defence Department within recent days suggest that some people have an impression'that the good news from the battlefrpnt is going to affect recruit drafts from this country. There ie no ground for any belief of the ktod as far as the October and November Reinforcements are concerned. The men ordered to enter camp with these drafts will be required; to mobiliso at the dates already fixed. The recruits for the October draft are being concentrated this week, the Wellington men are to parade at the Buckle Street Barracke this afternoon, and will enter camp to-morrow morning. The Decomber draft, as already announced, has bean dropped. The January and February drafts, which are both small, have ,beeu closed to recruiting as far as Second Division men are concerned, and it is possible that they will be combined in one draft entering camp in February. No official announcement has been made on this point. V | The camps have a surplus' of men, over and above actual reinforcement requirements, at the present time, and this surplus will be increased by the h\g draft that is mobilising this week (the Forty-seventh Reinforcements). The Defence authorities consider that it is sound policy to haremen in. hand at the present juncture, in order that New Zealand may be in a position to meet all domands zi the crisis of the war. . '.