AFTER FIFTEEN MONTHS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1915, Page 3

AFTER FIFTEEN MONTHS.

THE RECORDS OFFICE. (iFi'orn. Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Nov. '2(i. A paragraph that appears in one of the local newspapers to-day is worth quoting in ihuatration of the methods of the Defence Department:— Permission has been given by the City Council to the Defence Department, during the continuance of the war, to place a notice-board across the footpath from their ollice in Brandon .-Street to the telegraph pole opposite, for the purpose of directing the public to the Base Records Office. In other words the Defence Department has realised after fifteen months of war that an ollice which hides itself in tl.e upper storey of a city building without indicating its presence to the public in any way is rather hard to find. It would be interesting to know how many hundreds of people have wandered about Brandon .Street looking for the Records Office. But there is still no notice board to direct anybody to the recruiting ollice. The main doors of the barracks at Buckle Street, a rather out-of-the-way part of Wellington, are closed most of the time, but in one of them there .'i a small door through which one may climb. There is not as much as a khaki badge to show that the recruiting office is inside. The man who climbs through the little door finds himself in the Drill Hall, and if he tries the various rooms that open from it lie will discover that one of them—the furthest from the entrance—is the Dominion's chief recruiting office. Until the citizen's committee opened a recruiting offiee at the Town Hall a few weeks ago, every Wellington recruit had to go to Buckle Street and discover the office for himself.