RECRUITING.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15707, 28 September 1916, Page 11

RECRUITING.

! v -\STERDATS ENLISTMENTS. i _ I | Tho following e® listed yesterday:— • Herbert Ashton, Reeves road. Marshland, farmer, married. I Geo. Ball, 331 Madras street, bootmaker, ! married. j Jaa. Brown, Storey's Bptel, traveller, single. J. A. Bridges, 704 Poison street, plasterer, single. T. G. Dwyer, 23 Eaton place, labourer, single. G Edmonds, 77 Til ford street, sendder, nirtgle. W. J. Hill, Suanyside Hospital, attendant, married. J. B, Hooper, © Barbadoes street, pictffrofraroor, Bingio. D. L. Hampton, 11 Opawa road, tinsmith, single. A. McAlisier, care of Dr. .Thac&er, labourer, single. P. E. McDonnell, 97 Barbour street, piambuilder, single. P. J. McP. Sales, 374 Montreal struct, tykx, married, T. M. Smith, 27 Barrier etieot, bootmater, single. And four othere, three single and one married. TWENTY-FIRST REINFORCEMENTS. t A BIG SHORTAGE. (rBESS ASSOCIATION' TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, September 27. ' Notwithstanding tho arrival of tho additional recruits who went into camp yesterday, tho 21st Reinforcements aro 509 short. MILITARY SERVICE BOARD. KO TOT EDITOE OF "THE TKESS."

Sir, —Tho selection of men to constitute the Military Service Boards may have given the Cabinet some eauso for consideration, as the elements of the two old political parties in the country ar© not qui to. cxtinct. Although the Stipendiary Magistrates are appointed as chairmen, thero are just as fair men as Magistrates to be met with., or why do we not follow the principle and appoint Magistrates on the Cabinet, or as Speakers, of the General Assembly? Why, may I ask, does the sheepfarmer predominate. Have the. sheep stations ! oat given a, quota, or is sheep shearing to be any reason for granting temjporary exemptions? The sheepfarmer has not been the most popular employer in the country. Wby are the manufacturing interests left out? Tho termination of t)ie -war must be of great interest to them, and the need for more troops to that end most pressing. If the magistrates are to be called to a council to receive final instructions, they, being in the regular pay of the Government, may be expected to carry out their directions on tho most important issue. Why did th© convocation include all the members of these responsible tribunals? A sentence in today's official telegram, "The members of the Recruiting Board realise that ifthe Act is to be administered, and if public confidence is to be secured, exemption must be obtained in all .parts of New Zealand on somewhat similar grounds," may be read in two or three ways. 'Are the Civil servants, for instance, all to have similar exemption? It is clear to many that exemptions are not any longer tolerated if the tribunal in its uninfluenced wisdom decides so, and that the days of playing bluff, together with imaginary -fences around certain sections, • have oollapseci.— Yours, etc., 0 TEMPORA. 0 MORES.