FIRST DRAFT CLOSED

Evening Star, Issue 23384, 29 September 1939, Page 6

FIRST DRAFT CLOSED

SUPPLEMENTARY BATCHES LATER YESTERDAY’S REGISTRATIONS With yesterday’s enlistments the total number of registrations for service in the voluntary force for service at home or overseas reached 813 last night. The clerical staff at the registration office is still inconvenienced to some extent by inaccurate filling-in of the forms. A case in point is in connection with previous military service. Those registering are asked to state the arm of the service in which they have served, and it is pointed out that to put merely “Territorial Force” is insufficient. They are requested by the registration officer (Captain R. H. Cleland) to state tho branch of the force, whether Mounted Rifles, Artillerylnfantry, Engineers, etc., as the intimationdthat they have served in the Territorials does not supply the information desired. If they are serving members of the Territorial Army they should also make this clear when filling in the form. It would he appropriate in this connection to write “ still serving ” in the space provided for “ length of service.”

There has also been some delay in posting the men to a unit on account of lack of information of civil employment. They are therefore asked to give aa full a description as possible in this respect as the more precise the details are, the easier it is to allocate them to a unit for which they are meet suitable.

The first draft has now been closed, but supplementary drafts will be going forward in the near future and those who are intending to register are advised to do so as soon as possible in order to be included in the additional batch.

Registrations are classed as follows: Group 1 (officers on the reserve or active list). Group la (retired or exofficers), Group 2 (single men). Group 3 (married men without children), and Group 4 (married men with children). Those to register yesterday were ;■— DUNEDIN. —Group 2. Donald George Classen, George Charles Ellis, Alfred Gibson, Robert William Gibson, John Watt Guthrie, Colin William Keenan, Peter Leonard Kano (Ranfurly), Ivon Kenneth Macgrogor, Irwin Rutherford Miller (East Taieri), Francois Joseph Moynihan. Warwick Graeme North, Leonard George Smith, William James Clifford Swanerton, Norman John Walmsley. —Group 3. Freeman Jennqr (Alexandra), Thomas Penman Steven (Mosgiel), Andrew Trainor. —Group 4. Henry Whitson Pringle Brown (Mosgiel), Courtney Clark Pledger (Waitati).