New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1915, Page 3

New Zealand

t THE OTACO QUOTA. it Per Press Association. Dunedin, January 7. A sufficient number of men Jias been •obtained to complete the Otago quota 'of infantry for the third and fourth reinforcements, but names are being taken and medical examinations conducted for recruits for the fifth reinforcement, which will go into camp about the middle of February. The fifth reinforcement will be confined to mounted rifles and infantry. MILITARY HOSPITAL AT TRENTHAM.

Wellington, January 7. The" New Zealand branch of the British'Medical.Association is appealing for public subscriptions in aid of a proposal, formulated after consultation with the Commandant,' to establish a military, base hospital at Trentham, which is the standing camp for tlie whole of New Zealand. It is pointed out that this camp will presently contain 3GOO men, and will continue in existence certainly for a period'of two .years.. It is/not only a mobilisation camp, but also a demobilisation camp, .sa.thajt men invalided at the war will be discharged at Trentham, and not indiscriminately in the various parts of New Zealand or England, thus improving on the conditions which prevailed; in respect of military discharges after the Beer >v/ar. At present , serious cases, am ■serif ; to tlie Wellington Public Hospital, and this practice, will -continue, "but in a big camp like Trentham many ,jess serioas cases- and convalescents require accommodation and treatment under military dolors' and' orderlies. The Government proposes immediately to,build; a snujlT'camp hospital, and; the Medical' Association" hope's, with the public, "aid, to increase, the accommodation and equipment to the full extent required.' This will relieve the; tax on the capacity of the Wellington Public Hospital, and make for efficiency and economy.

The following 'notice to aliens ha 3 been issued b.y the authorities: It is hereby directed tMt all foreign residents of New Zealand who have, not been naturalised within this Dominion, And who are subjects of any of the with whom His Majesty T the King is now at war, are required to forthwith report, themselves at the nearest station and there register their 'names and such particulars as may be, required. Such persons are hereby, forbidden to travel more than twenty miles from their homes without first •receiving a permit from the police so to do. , STRATFORD BRITISH AND BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. Amount already acknowledged £B6G 4s j Post Office Officials 2nd contribution. 1 , £3 2s 9d ; Mrs Carey (proceeds sale of tea cloth), £3; C. J. Burrell (2nd contribution) £5. Total, £877 6s 9d. A special ettort is being made throughout New Zealand by the Salvation Army to raise £IO,OO to.keep open their helping institutions at Home, but chiefly to allieviate the suffering of the Belgians. Already £3OOO of the sum aimed at has been (forwarded. A Boys' Homo Special Demonstration will \be given in the Town Tiall on Wednesday evening. Mr J. B. Hine presiding, and a- collection in aid of - the above ol)ject will be taken up. A gift of five inotor aml)ulances, manned entirely by Salvationists, j has been despatched to,the front by the Salvation Army headquarters.' A German spy in London, writing to the "Frankfurter Zoitung," has the following amusing reference to "Tipperary," the song that is all the rage just' now■: "Tune—nigger song; place of' origin—music-hall. They sing it also on the sea, in hattla, when drunk, and on the march!"