New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 33, 6 September 1916, Page 5

New Zealand

RECRUITING BOARD STATEMENT. Per Press .association. Wellington, September 5. The official figures of the enlistments for the Infantry for tho 2Lst Reinforcements which mobilised for training during the last week of September, and which figures include the shortage for the 20th Reinforcements were as follows, as to date of Friday, Ist September:— Group No. 1, Auckland, shortage 4. Group No. 2, Paeroa, shortage 27. Group No. 3, Whangarei, shortage 37. Group No. 4, Hamilton, shortage 02. Total shortage for Auckland Military District 140. Group No. 5, Wellington, shortage 04. Group No. 6, Palmerston North, shortage 118. Group No. 7, Napier, shortage, 66. Group No. 7a, Alasterton, shortage 52. Group No. 8, Hawera, shortage 84. Total shortage for Wellington Military District, 384. Group No. 9, Christchurch, shortage 30. Group No. 10, Timaru, shortage 31. Group No. 11, Kaiapoi, surplus 18. Group No. 11a. Grey mouth, shortage, 67. Group No. 12, Nelson, shortage o. Total shortage for Canterbury Military District, 115. Group No. 13, Dunedin, shortage 46. Group No. 14, Invercargill, shortage 62. Group No. 15, Oamaru, shortage 34. Group No. 16, Milton, shortage 15. Total shortage for Otago Military District, 157. Total Dominion shortage 796. IMPERIAL SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT.

Wellington, September 5. The Imperial Supplies Department, on behalf of the imperial Government, lias paid out to New Zeahqpd producers to date £12,0.13,7-19. Since the Department started puichasing meat in March, 1915, the quantity so purchased to dale 975,9-18 quarters of beef, 3,916,930 carcases of mutton, and 5,6(0,702 careases of lamb. Already one hundred steamers have delivered cargoes ol meat under the purchase scheme, and 18 steamers are now on route from the Dominion to the United Kingdom with meat cargoes, and two loading in the Dominion. Of the meat fleet running since the scheme started one has been lost, the Clan Maetavish. Purchases, in addition to meat, consist of £917,205 for 13,816 tons of cheese, and £42,693 (.advanced) for 235 tons of scheelite. The Department has also purchased and delivered for the New Zealand Government butter to the value of £14,814. '1 his is for transports and camps.

DEATHS IN GAMP. Wellington, September 5. The Defence Office reports that Private James H. Watson died in the Master ton civil hospital on Monday evening, from eerebro-spinal meningitis. dlis next-of-kin is Private A. Watson, a brother member of the 21st Reinforcements. Another death from eerebro-spinal meningitis occurred at tin' Ucathei - ston -Military Hospital this morning, the patient being Private Harry Percival Coad. 20th Mounted Rhles. Next-of-kin (mother) Mrs M. /. Coad. To Roti, .Haw era, CALLING UP SHIRKERS. Auckland, September 5. As the result of a conference between the Minister of Defence and the local officials and the Mayor ol Auckland, the Mayor announces that the provisions of the Act for pressing into service members ol shirking families will be brought into operation for tilling the first shortage of tiie reinforcement drafts after the 16th inst. Previously reported wounded and missing, now reported killed in ,n cDon.—Trooper G. Davis. Correction Previously reported killed in action, now reported not killed.—Trooper P. C. Davis. Reported wounded.—Private L. CL Sellars. Lieutenant L. H. Marshall. Wounded, admitted Hospital.—Sergeant E. P. Houghton. Slightly wounded, remaining with unit.—Company Sergeant-Major li. E, Fyfo. MAORI CONTINGENT. Wounded, admitted to hospital,— Corporal T, Tuati,