WAR BRIEFS

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 10

WAR BRIEFS

Four Brothers Enlist.—What probably constitutes a record recruiting response is claimed by the four sons of Mr. W. W. Ruddell, who is farming in Tangowahine Valley, about 20 miles from Dargaville.—Own Correspondent. * ♦ ♦ ♦ Donation of £500. —Mrs. T. H. Lowry, Dominion vice-president of the NewZealand Red Cross Society, announced at a Red Cross meeting that she had made a donation of £500 to the joint council of the Order of St. John and the Red Cross Society.—Press Association, Dannevirke.

Recruiting in South.—By nine o'clock last night enlistments in the special force at Wellington were close to the 1500 mark, including 61 officers. An improvement in the recruiting was shown in Christchurch yesterday, the enlistment of 91 men bringing the total for the city since Tuesday morning to 759. One of yesterdays recruits is the father of nine children. Another is 6ft 6in tall and takes size 15 in bopts.—Press Association.

| Spirit of Anzac.—The Hon. W. Perry, ! M.L.C., Dominion president of the Rej turned Soldiers' Association, has received | the following cable from Sir Gilbert Dyett, Federal president of the Returned I Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League ] of Australia, Melbourne:—''Diggers of i Australia deeply appreciate and reciproi cate the sentiment of your welcome I cablegram and heartily agree with the I expression of confidence in the unconI quc-rable spirit of Anzac. Kindest rei gards.'—Press Association, Wellington, 'j * ♦ + + | "Slur on Maori People.''—Strong objec- ■ tion has been voiced in the Gisborne district conccrning the proposal ematii ating from North Auckland Maoris thnt | the sons of the tribes should serve onlv | in the home area. "It is a slur 011 the j Maori people as a whole to suggest that ' ° UI " boys be not allowed to take their full share in the services demanded by the war," said a member of the native community who served in the Great War as a member of the Maori Battalion. 'The Maori people will wish to taketheir full share in anv sacrifices demanded by the present" war," he said. We feel we are entitled to take a stand beside the Europeans in this eountrv and share equally with them in all that the war involves in the wav of service."' He suggested that steps 'be taken at once to bring the younger men together and explain to them the advantages of forming a special Maori Force.—(Own ' Correspondent.)