NEW RECRUITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 144, 18 June 1915, Page 7

NEW RECRUITS.

■ QCOTA FYSTEM AT WORK. ,Ny Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON", thi, day. The working of the n-w quota system re-rut iv dr-.-ribe.l by the Minister of | Defence is illustrated l.y the quotas of ! lion eommis-ioiied ~(liens bring railed up fiotn the different di-tn.-ts for the i Fighth Knnforrrin.'iii-. Tiie percentages : de, i.1e.l on ai c as follow :--

Mounted District. Itltles. Infantry. .V,i-lilnnd 23.11 Wi.O Welllllßtnn -tii I 414 Canterbury 14.:t 12.0 ou go H.:; io.fi These proportions have been fixed solely on the number of applications registered. The proportions for the men to be called up later on will be fixed upon the same principle—tho number of men available: in oiher words, the larger number of men registered in each district the greater will he the proportion called up, so that men will not he kept too Irnij: on the waiting li-t. The Defence authorities absolutely deny tiie suggestion that, there lire now sufficient men on the waiting : list to fill up -i\ reinforcement drafts Iso llial men now handing their names in are in reality enlisting for the I Fourteenth Ilrinfoi-cemenls. who will be I e.illr.l up iii August, liilii. fourteen I months hence. ■UOn MEN' FROM OTAOO. Oiv Telegraph. Special to "Star.") DINKDIX. this day. The latest figures show- that 4..10!) men from otago have joined the Kxpeditionarv l-'orce to date. Of this number 1.754 are territorials and 2.1115 civilians. Otago at tne present time has 45!) men willing io go into camp, '2»>S of these having enrolled in Dunedin.