STILL ENLISTING

Evening Star, Issue 23374, 18 September 1939, Page 8

STILL ENLISTING

STEADY STREAM OF APPLICANTS SATURDAY'S REGISTRATIONS Although the main rush of applicants for recruitment in the force for sen’ice at homo or abroad has eased very considerably, there is a constant stream of men to the registration office which has been established at the Drill Ha.ll, and the clerical staff there is kept fully employed in checking over and preparing the various documents required, to be kept. , , . , In addition to those who have made personal application to the Drill Hall, there were 15 postal registrations this morning. The total number of registrations made on Saturday was 29, covering the Dunedin and area. They were as follows, grouped in No. 1 group (officers on the reserve or active list), Group No. 1A (retired or ex-offi-cers), Group No. 2 (single men); Group No. 3 (married men without children), and Group No. 4 (married men with children): — —Group 1. — Lieutenant Robert Lamb Crosby Grant. Captain Ralph Dundas Baron Paterson (Heriot). Captain Ivan Patterson. Captain Harold Maxwell Smith. —Group 2. John William Robert Conningham, Austin Jackson Fraser (Bannockburn), John William Thomas Flannery (Palmerston), Archibald Gillies, Melvin Homer (Ranfurly), Allan Cassilis M'Kechnie, Roderick Montgomery, John Adam Moyle (Middlemarch), George Christie Napier, Douglas Cuthbert Rutherford (Pembroke), John Albert Russell (Palmerston), lan Cowio Scouiar (Omakau), Samuel George Truesdale. —Group 3. Augustus Graves Jordan, Ronald Roy Ritchie (Bannockburn). —Group 4. George Stanley Brown, William Henry Brown Aitken, Frederick Reginald Earl, Rowallan Cadenhead Ellis, Sydney James Gillan (Seacliff). William Henty Hughes, John Robinson M'Cracken (Ranfurly), Stanley John Parker, James Robert Stitchbury, John Tudor. OAMARU. —Group I. Lieutenant David John Bell. Captain Hector Gordon M'Quade. —Group 4. — David Albert Edwin Hood (Lake Waitakil, Henry Charles Edward Walker. WELLINGTON’S TOTAL, 1,534. WELLINGTON, September 17. The recruiting total for the , special force in Wellington up to Saturday night was 1,534, comprising 63 officers and 1,471 men. M.P. JOINS [Pee United Press Association , WANGANUI, September 18. Mr J. B. Cotterill, Labour M.P. for Wanganui, is among those who have enlisted in the New Zealand force for service at home or overseas.