New Zealand.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 263, 16 April 1915, Page 5

New Zealand.

HOSPITAL AT TREOTHAM. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, April 15. The Council of the British Medical Association has forwarded to the .Minister of Defence £1505 collected by! divisions of the association in New Zealand towards the cost of a hospital at Trentham. An additional £l*2:! has since been collected In' the association. The Government. is calling tenders for the erection of the hospital building. PERFECTLY SATISFACTORY. A SrPFICIEXCY OF RECRUITS. Wellington,SLast Night. " Perfectly satisfactory," was the comment by the Hon. J. Allen on the registration figures which have been compiled up to March 31, although, as he said, a good many have registered since that date. However, at March 31 there were on the register 2458 men, of whom G52 were Territorials and 1806 civilians. Those medically fit and available at the same date numbered 1933, of whom 559 Were territorials and 1374 civilians. "That shows," said the Minister, "that what we Imvc clone since the new scheme of registration was established. T think it is very satisfactory. I would like to call attention to this fact, that whereas of the number registered 2C.5 per cent, .were Territorials, of the total number medically fit and available 29 per cent, were Territorials." SPORTS FOR SOLDIERS. A SUGGESTION FROM AMATEURS. Dunedin, Last Night. (At a meeting of tJie Otago Centre of the "New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association to-night, a resolution was passed authorising that a letter be sent to the'Kew Zealand Council, urging that steps be taken to arrange races for men encamped at .Trentham on lilies similar to those conducted by the Southern Counties' Association in England in connection with the War Office, for troops training for the front.