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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 12 (Supplement)

NEW ZEALAND EFFORT Keeping Up Man Supply OVER 15,000 men Had been sent to the front from New Zealand by the middle of April, 1915. In addition to these over 1400 had gone in the expeditionary force which occupied Samoa and 250 New Zealanders in London had enlisted and joined the main body. Despite this, however, the magnitude of the operations developing had made it necessary that the Government should offer to the Mother Country *n additional number of men, and another battery of artillery and another brigade of mounted men, or two battalions of infantry had been suggested. As a result, the authorities required 10,600 more men and approximately 3700 horses before December 12. This was in accordance with the engagements entered into with the War Office. Then between December 12 and April 1 of 1916, a further 5300 men and approximately 1500 horses would be required. The sum total of the requirements at that time, then, was that close on 16,000 men and over 5000 liorses were needed to be enlisted in four months. Under the new scheme of registration for enlistment which came into force on February 15, 1915, the following numbers had been registered to date: — Auckland, 3054; Wellington, 1972; Canterbury, 2090; Otago, 844. Total, 7960. At that time, it was expected that registrations would be considerably in excess of the 10,600 required by the defence authorities by December, even allowing for 40 per cent medical rejections. The high percentage of medical rejects among the enlisting men, which meant that about 4350 out of a total of" 17,400 were unavailable, was regretted by the Government of the day, according to a statement made by the Minister of Defence (the Hon. J. Allen), who said that it was the duty of all to make certain that provision could be made to prevent a recurrence in the future. It had also been suggested, he said, that the Government should provide a badge for those who had been registered and turned dfown by the doctor in order that they should not have their loyalty or courage aspersed, but he did not know if the Government could adopt a badge. * + ♦ * KAIPARA SURVIVORS I would be pleased to get into communication with any of the officers or crew of the New Zealand Shipping Company's s.s. Kaipara when she was captured and sunk by the German auxiliary cruiser, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, early in August, 1914. I joined the Kaipara at Lyttelton in June, and after five weeks on the coast here, sailed from Lyttelton on July 11, 1914, for London via Cape Horn and Las Palmas. I may also add that I served on mine-sweepers in the North Sea from 1915 until 1918. —William Craigie, 02, Martin's Road, Hillmorten, Christchurch, S.W.I.

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