ANXIOUS TO HELP

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 112, 13 May 1915, Page 2

ANXIOUS TO HELP

«» MOVEMENT IN PORT CHALMERS. (IT TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, 12th May. A largely-attended meeting was held at Port Chalmers last evening to consider a proposal to arrange for volunteers to proceed Home to help in the manufacture of war material. The Mayor said he had been approached by some men who had failed to pass medical tests and were anxious to go Home to assist in some other capacity. He had wired to the Hon. James Allen, who was communicating with the Imperial authorities. It was not only young men who wanted to go, as Air. Isaac Stevenson, of Stevenson and Cook, proprietors of the Maori Ironworks, and others similarly circumstanced, were prepared to go to England and don overalls to work as mechanics for war purposes. The dock workers of Port Chalmers were also anxious to help. ' Mr. Stevenson suggested that the names of those willing to offer their services be taken and forwarded to Mr. Allen. The suggestion was adopted, and Messrs. Stevenson and Cook were the first to sign the list. Twenty others followed, and a committee was appointed to procure further signatures.