New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 83, 11 July 1916, Page 5

New Zealand

IKE 10th aEINFOaCEMENTS DDEVtINJON SHORTAGE !N INFANTRY, 181. Tho Chairman of tlio Recruiting Hoard (Hon. W. F. Massey) telegraphs as follows this afternoon from Wellington : ■ Recanting for the 19th Reinforcements is proceeding satisfactorily, ami the present indications point to tho draft being qui e full before tlie last week of this month, when the men arc due to go into camp to start training. The official figures of the registrations for the infantry (all other arms of the service being full as at date of Friday, 7th bust.) are as follows: Group No. 1, Auckland City. Group No. 2, Paeroa. Group, No, 3. Wluuigarei, shortage 85. Group No. 4, Hamilton, shortage 9.

Total shortage for Auckland Military District, 44. Croup No. 5, Wellington City, shortage 14. pa Group No. 6. Palmerston North, sc .-plus 12. croup No. 7, Napier, shortage 33. Group No. 7a. Master-on, surplus i . tr i Grou P No. 8, Hawera, surplus IQ. 1 Total shortage 'for the Wellington Military District, 18. Group No. 9, Christchurch City, shortage 31. ; Group -No. 10, Timaru, surplus 7L Group No. 11, Kaiapoi, shortage 3. Group No. 11a, Greymquth, shortage 32. 4 i Group No. 12, Nelson, surplus 20; ! Total shortage for the CanlerbupMil ary District, 39. Group No. 13, Dunedin City, shortage 62. i Group No. 14. Invercargill, shortage 1. Group No. 10, Oamaru, shortage o. . I j Group No. 16, Milton, shortage 12. I Total shortage for the Otago Military Dis riot, 80. The total Dominion shortage for the 19th Reinforcements is 181. i . J LATEST CASUALTY LIST. s Killed in Action. Lieutenant K. Munro. Captain-Adjutant A. McColl. Died of Wounds. Private H. L. Hey wood. Lance- Corporal JVI. McArthur. Private C. Daking. * Rifleman C.,C. Coleman. Trooper R. G. Cooke.

Died of Sickness. Private D. S. Stroud. Reported Wounded. Second-Lieut. A. R. C. Smart. Sccond-Lieut. G. R. Jones. Secoud-Lieut. H. J. I). Sheldon, s j Wounded. Rifleman C. H. Dawson, Private E. A. E. Larkin., j i Private J. Petersem ;;, j Private A. E. Scotoesv-f' • J Private N, ir Private T. Burr. lx! 11 ce-Corpo r.iJ ) E; h i tp:' Private W. NPAI-fldtt. .c’ Private W. Hr Bailey! Rifleman J. Clark, a Private G. Collins. .-j ; » Private F. R. Firestone. Q.M.S. J. A.< B. Forsythe. Private M. Hand. Private J. Melvor. Private C. J. Matson. Private C. F. Miller. Sergeant H. A. Pearce. Privote A. Stowell. Trooper A. Yanstone. Trooper A. Slackman. Private W. Brewin. Pririkte W. J. Capon. , ■ ' Private A. F. Johanson. Private W. G. Pointon. Rifleman W. Read. ■ Private A. P. Twohey. Lanee-Corpo'ral W.'f-TJlakSefe Trooper J. F. Hart. « >, Private A. C. Hawke,.'. - Private M. McFadyten. , Private J. Anderson. ~ _ Rifleman F.’BayrafSu * , *2 Piivate L. C. Bray. / *,sß Rifleman G. W. Campbell. Trooper A. Coulter. s 311 .Private S. T. Davison. , L* Rifleman J. Devercaux. . ii Piivate J. K. Dobson. Private A. R. Doyle. ' r 8 Private E. J. Fifield. Private G. Godfrey. Private R. G. Goodwin. '’S Private H. Halley. Trooper M. J. Hogan. Private H. Howarth. e* Lance-Corporal W. H. Johnston. , Lance-Corporal G. L. Knight. Private I>. E. E. Logan. Private F. Lovelock. Private W. H. Meacham, Private C. Renner. Private J. S. Stewart. Second-Lieutenant S. G. Guthrie. EF-Second-Lieutenant W. F. Stihvell. 1

Maori Contingent. i Died at Sea enroute to N.Z. ~ Private Peni. Private Pineki. Sergeant Pulu. || Private Tineatama. Private Vaihola. || Wounded admitted Hospital. Private -S. Cotton. HOSPITAL REPORT. A Dangerously ill, changing for worse ** Private H. G. Cooper. Dangerously ill.—Second-Lieutenant " H. h'. Dougherty. Seriously—Privates L. Robertson, C. A. Collier, C. r f. Stewart. Out of danger.—Trooper 'J„ A. Rob- ** son (pleurisy). Progressing favouisgg| ably. Private E. H. Ravenwood I'corebro spinal meningitis. Progressing as well as to be expect-ed.—Lance-Corporal F. E. Grinlinton. Progressing slowly.—Private D. Sutherland. MAORI COATING ENT. Dangerously HI. Private I). Happy.