IRATE UNALTERED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 218, 15 September 1939, Page 3

IRATE UNALTERED.

MORE MEN ENLIST.

FOR THE SPECIAL FORCE.

TOTAL THIS MORNING 33,

A not In*i" •*?-"{ young m<Ml em-,,11^1 at tin- Kul land Street drill hall at noon to-day tor i-n nii'iit in the special military fence being raise* I by the

• '<i\eriiinent tor service within or bevond

ion, This total show* that the rate of recruitment is now more or less level—yesterday's total at the same hour was lIJ men.

W lien recruiting offices closed at !> |'.in. last night, 7H men had been enrolled at the drill hall, making a total tor the city in three days of 17")") men. I lie aggregate for the whole Northern ■Military District since recruiting started oil 1 ucsday morning was :i7t>2. The total number of men rec|tiired from the district is 2200, but. as already announced, many may fail to pass the -Irict medical examination, and others " la . v Required to stay at work in essent ia I indust l ies. I lie general medical examination w ill l "- i " >" 'I'" city on Mon,la v. Onlv count rv recruit, have f ;l ,-' ex•'mined. .\ boil t .illll men will lie examined caeii day. With examinations |)i o, eeding steadily Irom !l a.m. to It) I 1 ' 1 ".' " likel \ that the majority of tic volunteers vv ill | K . dealt ' witi, in ' l ' l ' '"I'r days. Three si.ills will with I:! doctors and six dentists engaged on each shift.