New Zealand.
NEW RECRUITING SYSTEM.
Per Press Associatkw.
Wellington, February 17
The new recruiting system inaugurated by the Defence Department is meeting with pronounced success iu Wellington. Although the first notice of the system coming into effect was only given on Monday, the en--quiry for registration cards has already been such that every post office within Wellington City and suburbs has run out of first supplies, and has had to apply to the Defence Department for more. At No. 5 Area Office alone yesterday no less than eightyone registration cards were handed out to applicants. Referring to the new system, the Minister says this was entered upon because it was plain that the Department should take over the recruiting organisation into its own hands. In the past different systems had been adopted in different localities by Patriotic Committees. Posters had been issued, and one of these which had come into his hands was not as it should be. The Department accordingly set to work to prepare a poster of its own, and this had now been issued. By the introduction of the new recruiting system it was hoped to get as many men as possible, registered up. so that future drafts of reinforcements would be assured, and no confusion or hardship in calling up men would be entailed. The Department 1 particularly anxious that the men should not leave work until they were called upon to do so. and in the directions of how to enlist it had specially emphasised this upon intending recruits.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 40, 18 February 1915, Page 5
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254New Zealand. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 40, 18 February 1915, Page 5
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