CALL TO COLOURS

Evening Star, Issue 23372, 15 September 1939, Page 7

CALL TO COLOURS

RECRUITING CAMPAIGN CONTINUES FLOW OF APPLICATIONS MAINTAINED The registrations to yesterday for Dunedin in the special force for overseas or home defence were 475, including an additional 50 registrations yesterday. This increase is regarded as a healthy sign of the maintained interest that is being taken by all sections of recruits in the campaign. Though there are 56 trade classifications involved by the staff after registrations have been made the work has been proceeding without any hitch whatever, even though the new system of recruiting was introduced at almost a moment’s notice. From all parts of the province correspondence relating to details about joining the force has been pouring in daily from country districts in the province, the applicants including persons in every walk of life. Wednesday’s registrations were as follows, grouped in No. 1 group (officers on the reserve or active list), Group No. 1A (retired or ex-officers). Group No. 2 (single men). Group No. 3 (married men without children), and Group No. 4 (married men with children) :—• DUNEDIN GROUP I. Lieutenant Ernest David Price, Lieutenant Erie Stanley M'Lean, Lieutenant John Russell Morris.

GROUP 11. Eric Duncan Sargison, Cyril Patrick Lawless, L. Walter Benfell, John M'Kenzie Toms, Eric Mervin White, Leonard Gordon Cannon, Eric Rutherford Walker, Reginald Robert Sutherland, Charles Eric Russel, lan Lang (Palmerston), Allan James Brenssell (Mosgiel), James King Hurrell, William James Robinson (Alexandra), lan James Robertson, Edward Philip Ombler, Cyril Earnscleugh M'Ginnis (Alexandra), Newton James Wills (Omakau), Leonard George Gower (Alexandra), Charles Wilbur Mack (Alexandra), Godfrey Lewis Dixon (Alexandra), Patrick Ambrose Donnelly (Alexandra), John Swan, Gordon Hallum Cunningham (Ranfuvly), George James Moyle (Ranfurly), Thomas Dowie (Waikouaiti), George Turner, Granville Kaye, Norman Sutherland, Percy Walker Curr. Alfred William Milligan, Lawrence Desmond Stephens, Ernest Thomas M'Kee, Alan (Robert Cochrane, Colin Campbell Boswell, William Charles Wiuton. William Alfred Springford, John Hill Skinner, Leonard Launcelot Andrews, Robert Joseph Hewitt. (R. L. Menzies, William R. Lee, Claude Henry Vercoe (Mosgiel), Jack Lance Sampson, Lindsay Sutherland, Roy Arundel, Leslie Thomas Reeves (Omijni), Leslie Patrick Meehan, Leslie Michael O’Sullivan, Russell James Lewis, Leo Patrick Murray. Edward Charles Wood (Ranfurly), Archie Lothian Gibbs (Ranfurly), Leonard Roy B. Johnstone, Albert Ensor Thompson. GROUP Mi. John Lochlan Maclean, Andrew Curtis Blee. GROUP IV. Alexander Mitchell, Arthur Stanley Oayzer, Lloyd Lester M'lnnes. William IR. Cunningham (Mosgiel), Thomas Herbert Rhodes (Omakau), Herbert

Sloan Sandford, Dudley Clarke (Naseby), Stanley Lawson, William James Sproule, Robert Henry Brockie, Charles Whitwam Rhodes, Robert Alexander Cairney, George Marshall, Francis Devenney, Joseph Robert Maher, Andrew Gunn, Jame.s Alexander Knox, George William Dougherty, Arthur Skene Todd (Brighton). OAMARU GROUP 2. Raymond Bachop, Frederick James Blanchard, John Rapson Byers, Edward James Carson, Alfred Eric Gleghom, Geoffrey William Garden, John William Tate, lan Ure. IN OTHER DISTRICTS NORTHERN 3,762 [Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 14. Volunteers for the special military force for service within or beyond the Dominion totalled 364 at the various centres in the Northern Military District to-day, bringing the aggregate for the district up to 3,762 for the three days’ recruiting. The metropolitan enrolments at the Drill Hall were 78, making 1,755 for the city in three days. For the other areas in the district the total enrolments up to to-night were: Hamilton 853, Paeroa, 693, Wliangarei 461. CENTRAL HASTINGS, September 14. The total enlistments in the Central Military District for the special force totalled 876 up to 5 p.m. to-day. De-

tails; Gisborne 229, Napier 165, Hastings 183, Dannevirke 143, Masterton 156 SOUTHERN CHRISTCHURCH, September 14. Tbe total enlistments in Christchurch are now 680. To-day’s total was 75. INVERCARGILL, September 14. There was a fairly steady stream of enlistments for the special military force to-day, and tin* total for the Southland area is now 355. The medical examination of reci'uits began to-day. Of the 87 examined, 24 were rejected as temporarily unfit, mainly for dental reasons, and 14 as permanently unlit.