SPECIAL FORCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23916, 18 September 1939, Page 6

SPECIAL FORCE

OTAGO ENLISTMENTS TWENTY-NINE ON SATURDAY Another 29 enlistments on Saturday for the special force for service at home or overseas brought the total number of volunteers recruited in Dunedin and Oamaru to 567. A small proportion of these have still to undergo their medical examination, and it is hoped that this will be proceeded with to-day. The recruiting office will be open again this morning from 9 o’clock, and will be open daily until further notice to accept offers of service. Yesterday, officials at the Drill Hall made up some of the leeway on work which has accumulated during the rush of the past week. The registrations on Friday 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 1 Lieutenant John Robert Hertslet Fulton, Colonel Gordon Ross Mitchell, Lieutenant Cyril Wilhelm Butterfield. Group 2 George Leonard Lawrence, Victor Frederick George Hay, Graham H. Hardie, James Henry Brown, John McGowan Kirby (Mosgiel). Philip Anthony O’Reilly (Palmerston), Lewis James Froude (Oturehua), Williain David Parker (Wellington), Robert Dawson Wink (Naseby), James Nesson (Alexandra), Walter James Johnson (Alexandra). Alistair Clearie (Galloway), George Cyril Smith (Tarras), Noel John Smith (Tarras), Arthur James Haydon (Cromwell), lan Walter Stanley Loach (Hawea Flat), William Davenport Warren (Cromwell), Eric George Carter, Joseph James Scardno, Arthur Walter Armishaw, Cameron James Armishaw, Lawrence French, Gordon Stewart, James Andrew Mathewson, Alexander George Taylor, John Barclay Manson, Frederick Turnbull Mason. Edward Flawn, • John Thomson, William David McCutchon. Group 3 1 John Frederick Rutherford Howie, Fred Ovens Geering, Alexander Francis John Dougherty (Alexandra). Group 4 -Thomas Charles Yates, Edwin George Hobcraft (Purakanui). Andrew Robertson Howie Stephen, Allan Edward Marcus Agnew, Robert William Paul. Edward Joseph Comer. George William Perks, Robert William Edwards, Stanislaus Edward Paterson. OAMARU. Group 2 John William Gilchrist. Ivan Ernest Allcock, Dennis Thomas Marren. CHRISTCHURCH FIGURES SUDDEN RUSH OF RECRUITS r~ ■ ../■■ *■ ■ (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH. Sept. 17. There were 74 enlistments in Christchurch yesterday for the special military force for service within of beyond New Zealand. This makes the Christchurch total to date 851. MASTERTON ENROLMENTS LARGE PERCENTAGE OF REJECTIONS (Per United Press Association; MASTERTON. Sept. 16. Enrolments to-day in Masterton: in the special military force totalled 190. So far, 136 volunteers have been medically examined, of which number 45 have been rejected, most of them on account of defective teeth. WELLINGTON’S TOTAL OVER 1500 RECRUITS (Per United Press Association; ‘ WELLINGTON, Sept 17. The recruiting total for the special force in Wellington up to Saturday night was 1534 y comprising 63 officers and 1471 men. ■;