MORE MEN WANTED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 191, 12 August 1915, Page 7

MORE MEN WANTED.

12.000 rw FOTTR MONTHS. STATEMENT BY MIXISTKR. ÜBGEXCY OF RETXFORCEMEXTS. (B.r Tt-lcgrapb. —Tress Association. WELLINGTON. Wednesday. •The Imperial (Jovernmont having accepted New Zealand's offer of two" additionnl battalioM," says the Hon. .lames Alien. Minister for Defence, "we will proviii.' at Featherston tor another 1.000 men. w> , hsui provided originaaiv tor ■i.aCK). but wp will now take 3..">0n men therr. In the Featnerston a D d Trentham permanent •-amps we sh<ili take 7,i0() men. The new battalions will 20 into camp vrhon tho Trentham rejiment leave.-, which will be about the middle of October. "Wi I rernnting pfforu* be ntnvssan-:-' rho Minister was .xsked. "We shall spp." ho replied. -The public may ss wf i know th.it between now an.i Docpinber 14 no\t we shall want x-c hive in camp, in addition to -.vhut vr,> hare n ,l ". Ho*p on 12.1XH3 men. We su-iU requiro th.it many actually to pa.-=e the medical test. By June oi next year we sl.al! war.t over 22.000 to pass the medicti ofliects. so vo;! see we have our work cv; out. and espeeiaHy a«. I hay- giren my positive both to General Bird wood and General Godley, that New Zealand w-Jl keep up it- regular reinforcemente to the main body. ,-\nd for those new battaJions — the TrentJiam reffinjrnt and thoee we h.ive jr.st asrreed to -T i away. "A!! we want now is a steady regt>trau<~'X\ of men. without any undue ovcitpmt'nr. to supply added respon*ibilitif«. t tit Jon"t want mm who register to l»a\o their work untii aske.l tiy th* DefPDOF rv;ui>onties to do so. That ;■= New Zealand"* policy, and U has pr'ive'i :t- m'ir \\> are makin; this »ppea'. especially to young unmarried men. who hive not already to £Pt on to tile resjistPr as soon they -.in. and remain at their employ irvrt until wo thorn to come out. Tlw , eighth are ready to roir.o :nto canrp. and a certain number hay*> -*<ristered for the ninth. I lo .rant to call attention to what (Vpiw-i' Godlpy has written to mo. that tv authorities are not s-d anxious about a.itittional units as tint a regular supply of reinforcempnte shall bo kept up. They want to feel thai, whatever nrsy aappen. the rn.iin body *!vall Iwve •J! tbe blanks filled."