NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 September 1918, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

RECRUITING BOARD REPORT

WELLINGTON, this day,

The Recruiting Board will make an announcement within the next few days regarding the first ballot of the D. Class of the Second Division. No D men (three children) wall be taken into camp before next April if tbe preseat rate of reinforcements is continued, and the date may be later. The October, November, and January drafts (47th, 48th and 49th Reinforcements) are now closed, and we are now recruiting the February draft ..(BOth Reinforcements). Recruiting is also closed so far as Second Divisionists are concerned. The remainder of C Class men, adopt four thousand, will .be,, gazetted on the 18th Inst. Fit men are ; being posted to tile March draft, for-which recruiting is now open. It is expected there will be a surplus of C men to carry over to the April draft.

HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS WANTED. TO PROVIDE FREE SCHOLARSNIPS. FOR CHILDREN OF MEN. MAKING SUPREME SACRIFICE. WELLINGTON, this day A representative and influential deputation waited on Mr. Homes, Minister for Railways," and Mr. W. D. S. Macdonald, Acting Postmaster-General in connection with a project for raising £IOO,OOO to provide scholarships for children ot Now Zealand soldiers and sailors killed in the war. The object of the deputation was to inform the Ministers that a fund had recently been inaugurated in the Trentham Camp with the aim of providing scholarships for children of New Zealand soldiers end sailors who made the supreme sacrifice. Major-General Robin, Colonel Potter. Dr. Anderson -(Directed - oif .Education) were appointed trustees to the fund and substantial donations been obtained towards a big art union. Application was then made to the Minister of Internal Affairs to hold a raffle, but as the scholarship movement had grown so much that they thought of making it a Dominion fund. The Minister had asked the promoters to set up a strong Supervision to control the art union and the Minister had given the necessary licence to proceed with the art union, and to each district there should be sent bayonet fighters and the Trcntham band to let people see what was being done at Trentham in the way of training soldiers. Free railway passes and postal facilities were .asked for.

hfr MacDonald and HXr, Herrics, replying, said the matter would go before Cabinet and receive every possible consideration. ,