DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1916, Page 2

DOMINION'S PART.

fBE CALL. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Wellington, February i. The percentages of recruits who' registered -during the past week were as follows, the figures for the week ended January 23 being shown for purposes of comparison:— Week Week Quota ended ended on Jan. 29. Jan. 22. N'l. Keg. Au.klaml w 25.37 24.55 27 Wellington .. 44.1!) 45.02 33.9 Canterbury .. 15.92 10.37 23.2 Otago ;,„ 11.53 11.00 is' RETURNED SOLDIERS. ROTORUA ARRIVES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday, The Rotorua arrived at daybreak with seven officers and 190 men of the New Zealand Forces. The returning invalids were given a public reception in the Town Hall at noon. The southerners, 130 in number, were given a motor drive in the afternoon. The returned soldiers are mostly wounded who have been under treatment in England, and arc thoroughly healthy looking. There are ho crutches or missing limbs, but several of the men lost an eye. Captain Hardham, who won the Victoria Cross in South Africa, landed.at Hobart. There arrived by the Rotorua two English officers to join tho New Zealand Staff, Captain H. A. Cooper (sth Lancers), who served six months in Flanders early in the war and won the Russian War Cross, and Captain R. Neave (Essex Regiment), who was itt the original landing on V Beach, Cape Helles. He is a machine-gun expert.