SPECIAL FORCE RECRUITS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22906, 30 December 1939, Page 10

SPECIAL FORCE RECRUITS

CITY REGISTRATIONS YESTERDAY MEN FOR SECOND ECHELON MEDICAL BOARD SITTINGS ARRANGED

Recruiting in Christchurch was yesterday at its briskest since the early appeal was made for men for the First Echelon. By 9 p.m., 33 men had enrolled in the city. A total of 87 men is now available trom Christchurch, irrespective of those to be selected from yesterday’s recruits, for the Second Echelon. They are in addition to the 47 officers who are available. Of the men yet to be posted to units. 36 are single men, 15 arc married without children, 18 are married with one child, and 17 are married with two children. The largest number since the first weeks of recruiting will' appear before medical boards in the city on Wednesday. Notices have been sent to 60 men advising them of the examinations. A medical board will also sit at Timaru?on January 4, when 20 men will be examined.

Two recruiting meetings were held in the city yesterday, at midday and in the evening. The results were excellent in the afternoon, a number of men larger than usual making applications to the recruiting bureau in Cathedral square. Many inquiries as to the conditions of home service were also received by the bureau. Yesterday’s enlistments, excluding four men whose names were not available for publication, were:—

Adamson, Douglas Hastings, pathological laboratory assistant, Hos-

pital, Christchurch, Aldridge, John, clothing factory hand. 79 Osborne street, Linwood. Callan, Leo, truck-driver, 27 Holmwood road, Fendalton. Clark, Edred Reid, timber worker. 129 Palmer’s road. New Brighton. Collins, John Leonard, teamster, 46d

Cashel street, Linwood. Dacre, Foster George, unemployed, 9 York street, Opawa. Davis, David, unemployed factory hand, 64 Rawson street, New

Brighton. „ , r Fleming, Michael, labourer, Salvation z Army Home, Addington. c Ford, Kenneth Leslie, labourer, Cope- \ land camp. South ,Westland. I Garlick, George William, labourer, t care G.P.0., Christchurch. Harding, Herbert, labourer, 81 Deans avenue, Christchurch. Harris, Edward, unemployed, 2 Walker ? street, Christchurch. c Henderson, Lawrence Gideon, farm f labourer, Charteris Bay, i Jordan, John William, tramway motor- £ man, 35 Edgeware road, St. Albans, ? Joss, Arthur John, timber worker, 150 £ King street, Sydenham. r Le Compte, Max Alwyn, railway sur- j, faceman. Little River, c Le Lievre, Eugene Louis, labourer, a Akaroa. . o Loveday, William, motor mechanic, t Rangiora. d McLaughlin, Joseph, labourer, Culver- *■ den. Mora, Bernard John, painter, IX3 Fitz- t gerald street, St. Albans. t Munro, Matthew Wallace, cook, 55 v Nurs.ery road, Christchurch. t: Newsome, Bruce Alexander, tinsmith, a 107 Kilmore street, Christchurch. Nottingham, Michael Spencer, motor v salesman. Hotel Gloucester. Christchurch. £ Peach, James, linesman, Sefton. - Simpson, William Alfred James, unemployed chef, 181 Lichfield street, _ Christchurch. p Southerwood, Philip Arthur, storeman, hj 165 Brougham-street, Sydenham. p Smith, Leslie, Public Works employee, v 30 Union street, Pappnul. r Torrens, Albert Alexander, clerk. Cor- j sair Bay, Lyttelton. - . 1 Young, Jack Alfred, teamster, Kil- u linchy. d a ASHBURTON | t The enlistment of six further volun- a teers for the Special Force has given c an impetus to recruiting at Ashburton. \ The total enlistments at the depot are r now 168. ® The latest enrolments are;— s Burgess. Arthur, 9 Wakanui road. c Common, Gavin Hall, New Zealand 1 Railways, Ashburto . Ede t J., Mount Hutt R.D., Hakaia. HopKiHS, P. IL, C/O. JVlr Harrison, Doric. Rakaia. Milne, John, labourer, Ashburton. Walker, Malcolm, woollen mills employee, Ashburton. * TEMUKA -. [From Our Own Reporter] TEMUKA. December 29. There has been a marked improvement in recruiting in the Temuka and Geraldine. districts during the last week. The recruiting officer for Temuka stated yesterday that another man had offered his services. He is Ernest Henry Waller, Raukapuka, Geraldine. HEALTH OF TROOPS FOR OVERSEAS “EQUAL TO THAT OF MEN IN 1914” (PBES3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON. December 29. A good report of the general health and physical fitness of .the troops Of the second New Zealand Expeditionary Force shortly leaving for overseas was given by the Director-General of Medical Services, Colonel F. Bowerbank, in an interview. He said that the influenza epidemic that had beep so widespread was now a thing of the past, but he was investigating possible causes on the basis of the information contained in. reports from medical officers attached to the various units in camp. All men had been blood typed, and inoculated against typhoid, i and would be vaccinated against smalla pox shortly, after leaving New Zea--1 land. . Although whep the Special Force recruits first went into camp their gen--2 eral fitness and physique was slightly •, under that of the 1914 Expeditionary j Force, the healthy open-air life they b lived and their training and good food had overcome aft that. They were rjow in excellent fettle and quite equal to '■ the men who went overseas in 1914-15, c ' The Special Force will be accompan- * ied by medipal officers with equipment 9 capable of dealing with any medical or 1 surgical emergency, and there will also t be staff nurses. This was to some ex1, tent an innovation, because there were jr no nurses with the first seven reinforcements in the last war.