RECRUITS WANTED

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 167, 14 July 1916, Page 6

RECRUITS WANTED

TO KEEP UP REINFORCEMENTS ADDRESS FROM RECRUITING STATION. An appeal for recruits wae made from . the platform of the Recruiting Station early this afternoon by Mr. -David Mc- . LaTen, ex-Mayor of Wellington, who has . undertaken to deliver recruiting lectures , at the principal centres of the Dominion, t and has already addressed large meetl ings in several cities in the North and , South Islands. ] 1 Air. McLaren said that an altogether . , wrong impression had got abroad thatl , ', New Zealand was not required to supply!. ! any further men for the Expeditionary; \ . Force. People were apt to believe, from' j reading the accounts ii' the newspapers : i of the recent success • of the Allies, r that they could afford to lie back and . let things take their course. That imr pression had done a certain amount of . harm. Sir A. Robin had declared re- , . ccntlv in a speed) in Wellington that '. . we would require to keep up our rein- ■ - forcements for at least twelve months ' f longer. He said that New Zealand ; would be doing a very foolish thing in- - deed if it allowed the number of men. j being sent forward monthly to slackeni r off. The best material assistance we| ', a could give to the men already at the t front was to keep up the reinforcement , - drafts in order to give them the 'best b chance of winning out in the fight they c were engaged in. The district's quota c for the next draft, the Nineteenths, was| y almost complete, but after they had gone| into camp men would still be required! • for the succeeding reinforcements. ' > Mr. McLaren will deliver a further ads dress at the Recruiting Station at eight ; o'clock this evening.