The Seventh Contingent

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 112, 23 February 1901, Page 3

The Seventh Contingent

Wellington, February 20. Officers commanding districts have been instructed to receive applications from those desirous of enrolment in the next batch of men for South Africa. Eacn district is allotted so many, and men will be examined medically and physically at the local centres. The applicants selected are to assemble at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin and Wellington about the 25th inst. Those outside Wellington will subsequently come here for the final brush up. Dunedin, February 20. Otago’s portion of the Seventh Contingent comprises 34 men from Dunedin, and 33 from Oamaru and Invercargill, Sixty-five men are wanted from Auckland for the Seventh Contingent, and 230 have applied. Otago’s portion comprises 34 from Dunedin and 83 from Oamaru and Invercargill, and 300 had applied at Dunedin by Tuesday, and further names were, then refused. Thirty four men will be enlisted in North Canterbury and 33 in South Canterbury. These men will go into camp at Addington on February 15th and undergo their riding and shooting tests, and then those who are selected will be sent on to Wellington.

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