RECRUITING.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15469, 23 December 1915, Page 8

RECRUITING.

[ THE NEW ORGANISATION. APPEAL BY THE GOVERNOR. t w UNITY AND EFFORT REQUIRED. (press association ttltgbam.) "WELLINGTON, December 22. The following letter was received from his Excellency the Governor tonight :— "With the permission of the Imperial authorities, I have been enabled to accede to the Prime Minister's request to become the patron of the Recruiting Board •which has been formed. There is no doubt that tho engagements entered into by the Government of New Zealand with the Imperial Government will be maintained, and that this Dominion will be able to fulfil all her obligations. The United Kingdom looks to New Zealand to Bee that the requirements for food supply for Imperial troops and for those of our Allies are maintained, and also that a certain monthly quota of reinforcements for the New Zealand forces is kept up. To enable these problems to bo coped with efficiently, a Recruiting Board, assisted by local committees, has been formed. "We have before us tho example of Lord Derby's efforts, which have so lately been crowned with success. Lord Derby's scheme was based on mutual co-operation, and, though as all are J aware, there arc two trains of thought as to the methods of procuring recruits, he asked that everyone should do his utmost to assist him by placing aside any personal views and criticism, and combine to raise what was required by voluntary efforts. The new scheme here desires t<> follow Lord Derby's aims, and so keep up a constant flow ■ji recruits, at the same time not withdrawing men from their employment until such time as their services are required. This is tho essence of "what has been achieved in the Old Cbuntry, and if this is carried out we can efficiently perform the dual task which the Mother Country has placed upon us. "May I ask everyone to co-operate and assist tho Board in every way possible, and to do this best, may I suggest that we should banish from our vocabulary all terms of an opprobrious nature, and remember that to gain the best Asults ive must lead and not drive?

If tact ana common-scnse is shown, there is no one who can suppose that this Dominion, which has made such great sacrifices in the past, and which is ready to make any sacrifice to maintain her integrity and her freedom, will have any difficulty in fulfilling all those Imperial obligations which New Zealand has shouldered so nobly and whole-heartedly. The nation is passing through a period of great trial, but the dawn of victory will assuredly come. Let us brace ourselves so that we give all the assistance we can to our leaders, and do nothing which may hearten our foes, and so postpone even for a time our final victory." (Signed) Liverpool, Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

CANTERBURY'S PART.

ELEVENTH) REINFORCEMENTS. ANOTHER DRAFT LEAVES. The following draft from the Christchurch group area left for "Wellington last evening to help fill out the shortage in the Eleventh Reinforcements:— MOUNTED RIFLES. J. McTaggart. INFANTRY. P. Carrick, J. Francis, B. O'Reilly, F. Woodham. TWELFTH REINFORCEMENTS. POSITION IN CHRISTOHURCH. Thirly-eight men have#now been secured for the infantry branch of the Christchurch quota of the Twelfth Reinforcements, leaving 68 to obtain. The following table snows the position in Christchurch to date :— Rejected Medically Not yet since lust Branch. fit. examined return. Mounted .Rifles ..41 13 4 Artillery .. <6 3 Engineers .. .. 22 7 f Signal Eervico ~ G — Infantry .. 53 23 11 A.B.C. .. .. 23 — — Ambulance ..34 3 8 Veterinary Corps ... 2 . — — Hospital Ship .. 2 '— — Tuniellinj? Co. — 1 _ Saraoan Relief ..7 — — Totals ... 236 60 20 Included in the above list of medically fit are the following prospective non-commissioned officers i—Mounted Rifles G, Artillery 6, Engineers 4 Infantry 10. : Excluding prospective non-commis-sioned officers, there are now available' for quotas subsequent to the Twelfth the.following fit men:—Mounted Rifles 10, Artillery 23, Engineers 10, Signal . Service 3, Infantry 5, Army Service Corps 20, Ambulance 31, Hospital Ship 2. Samoan Relief 7; total 111. % YESTERDAY'S ENLISTMENTS.

A SLACK DAY. '

Recruiting was exceedingly slack! in Christchurch yesterday, only the following thirteen men registering for 6ervice: — Philemon Angus, Junction Hotel, Halswell, tramway employee, A.S.C. Stanley Harrison Eaton, Francis avenue, St. Albans. Keith McGausland, 27 Ollivier's road, Linwood, motor driver, Mounted. i Arthur T. Cason, G.P.0., Christchurch, labourer, InfantryArthur Dobbie, 83 Bishop street, St. Albans, grocer's traveller, Infantry. J as. Nicolo Work, 49 Phillips street, Linwood, machinist, Infantry. John William Brazil, 87 Ruskin (tract, Sydenham, labourer. Infantry. James Thomas Gordon, 257 Milton street, -Sydenham, assistant parser. Infantry, Arthur William Gill, Lyttelton, driver, A.S.C. Edward James Sullivan, 49 Alexandra street, Christchurch, carpenter, Infantry. Robert Arthur Rose, 11 Gatherer street, Linwood, carpenter, Army Servioe Corps. Alexander M. C. Tuk, Oxford Hotel, Christchurch, cook. Infantry. William Whitla, Silvester street. Woolston, carpenter, Infantry. On November lltix there, appeared in "The Press" a list "of names of men who had attended their medical : examination in Christchurch without filling in a registration form, with the result that their addresses were not known to the Defence authorities in this city, and in consequence thqy had not been notified to leavo for camp. The Defence authorities in consequence asked these men to report themselves. In the list appeared the name of John Robert Loudon. The Defence authorities in Christcliurch havo now been advised thai Londoa. who must have registered elsewhere in th© Dominion, left with the Seventh Reinforcements as a lieutenant.