NEW RECRUITING SYSTEM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 18 February 1915, Page 4

NEW RECRUITING SYSTEM.

I WORKING SATISFACTORILY, By Telegraph-Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night.' The new recruiting system inaugurated by the Defence Department is meeting with pronounced success in Wellington. Although tile first notice of the system coming into effect was only given on Monday, the .''enquiry 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 eighty-one registration cards were handed out to applicants. Kef erring to the new system, the Minister says this was entered upon because it was plain that the Department should takq over the recrnitinsr organisation into its own hands. In'thc past different systems had been adopted in. different localities bv Patriotic Committees. Posters had been issued, and on e of thes ( » 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 now recruiting system it was hoped to get as many men as possible registered up, so that future drafts of reinforcements would be assured, andno confusion or hardship in calling up men would b e entailed. The Department was 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 roemits.