THE CALL FOR MEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1916, Page 4

THE CALL FOR MEN.

MR. POOLE'S TARANAKI TOUR. SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF MEN. .VOLUNTARYISM'S LAST TRIAL. Mr. C. H. Poole, M.P., who has been busy ob recruiting campaigns in practically every part of the Dominion throughout the recess, returned to Auckland this week from a recruiting tour in the Taraaaki district. Seen by a Star representative, Mr. Poole said that the authorities were a good deal concerned respecting Taranaki'g failure to find its share of the Wellington district quota for recent reinforcements. The draft for the Fourteenths, which went into camp last week, showed a considerable shortage, and a revival is necessary if future drafts are to be kept up to full strength. Mr. Poole, while in the district, addressed a number of meetings, and he has been asked to return to New Plymouth at an earlv date and 4eliver further appeals to ' {hose eligible to enlist. "The feeling in Taranaki is that there arc lots of men who could go if they would go," said Mr. Poole. "The healtancy of a good many is due t« the fact that men with practically no ties steadily avoid the recruiting office. A profound impression has been created by the splendid recruiting work which it being done in Auckland, but the unfairness of asking Auckland to go on, month after month, filling tjie gaps in south* era quotas is generally recognised. ■'■ TARANAKPS DUTY. Major J. McNaught, O.C. comtnanfflßf the Taranaki Military District, advises us that Taranaki's quota for the 14th Reinforcements has been Oiled'. Nineteen men were wanted, and 22 have volunteered, and have gone, or are going to camp. For the 15th«, seventy men have come forward. Sixty-five more are wanted to make Taranaki's quota complete, by April 3rd. /