SPECIAL FORCE RECRUITS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22908, 3 January 1940, Page 8

SPECIAL FORCE RECRUITS

MEN FOR THE SECOND ECHELON

MANY NEW REGISTRATIONS SINCE HOLIDAYS

. Stimulated r by an, intensive, campaign in the city and suburbs, recruiting for the Special. Military Force, has met with considerable success over the last few days; Recruits who enlisted _ at the central ■ egistration office in . Cambridge - terrace arid- the various bureaux in the city and suburbs on December 30, January 1, and yesterday totalled, 64. a figure which has given the authorities cause for gratification. Fifty, new recruits had been enrolled up to the evening of Monday. January 1, a figure well up to the expectations of those.'undertaking the campaign. More than one-third of these men gave their names in at one or other of the special recruiting bureaux. Yesterday registrations at all bureaux were 35, one of the best daily totals for some time. T' enty-one names were taken at the depot in Cathedral square, a result which pleased the registration officials. This depot had its best recruiting day to date. - With very few except ns the ,recruits were' young single men, it was stated. No special rally was held yesterday in the recruiting campaign. Eight men were registered at the central • depot. A , medical board will sit to-day. when 60 men will be examined. Four boards will sit to-morrow, the number already warned, to appear for examination being about 80. A board will sit at Timaru at 9 a.m. to-morrow, when there are 30 men to be . examined, and 14 men are to be examined when a board sits "at Ashburton at 7 p.m. As the men are examined, those •passed fit will be immediately posted to units, so that they can be given the necessary week’s notice before being sent to camps, where they are due on January 12. • ■ ■ Registrations since noon on Saturday are as follows:---Adlam. Adrian Arthur, farm labourer. At3dllU3t Aitken. Tom. unemployed. Coronation Hospital, Cashmere. Anderson, Ted, qlub steward, 12 Konini street, Riccarton. Banfield, Horace Reginald,, unemployed, 4 Fisher street, New BnghBurdon. Albert, skilled labourer, 494 Tnam Bell. Clarence James, labourer. Dar- : field. Brain, Robert Leslie, labourer, 59 Ayres " • street, Rangiora. Carroll, Victor Michael, labourer. 479 ■ Tuam street. _ . , .„ Castle, Jack Albert, unemployed, 42 River road. New Brighton. ■ • • Chalmers. Adam, barman. Canterbury , Hotel. Lyttelton. , Cheklen, Edward, motor mechanic, . Horrotane ; Valley, Heathcote. Couhihad, Eugene, wool store, em- ' 'ployee, 80 Montreal street. Gumming, Albert Easton, labourer., 137 ; Selwyn street. ' Davidson, Ronald Alfred Raymond, ! public Works employee. Summer- . hill. RahgiQra. •’ ■, . . Durey, Ernest .Gordon, truck driver. 470 Barbadoes street •-• Ealan, Richard George, machinist. 22 Haft" street.r WOolston. ." . ,■ Fanning. Vincent Stephen David, metal ■ polisher, 16 Alma street. RiccarFehtoh, Jack Henry, baker and cook, 28 Clark street, Sumner. Fleming, Norman David, seaman, care of s.s. Wahine. ' ''*>}.", ; Gibbons. Cyril; stable hand. 18 Chichesstreet. "•, ■ GdffirO Norman, George, oil company employee, 43 Witisor crescent. - Gollan. Raym nd, factory worker, 34 Carlaw street. , ■■■ ■ Graham, George Gervous. 'bushman, ! 135 Antigua street. _ .■ Harris, Francis Edward, machimst, o Stanmore road. ; ■ Hepburn, Allen, labourer, Rakahun. Horler, Reginald - Stephen,, freezing ; worker; Tuahiwi. ~ Haydon, lan, - labourer, Southbndge. Ingram. Henry Adam, cook. Salvation Army Men’s Home. Addington. Johnstone. Thomas Whiteside, porter. 282 Lyttelton street • V Kelly. Raymond Leo, lorry driver, ■Geraldine. - , Kennihgton, James William, lorry : driver,.22 Mayfield street. AddingKyle,° James Gordon, farm hand, Spen- ; cerville road, Chaneys. , . Lash Clifford Harry, motor driver, 119 surlc6 fetrest - ~, , » Lee,. William,; public works employee, Holmes’s boarding-house, Manchester street. . • , , Lighffoot. Stanley Dundas; labourer. 108 Waimakariri road, Harewood. Lowe. Leslie Norman, farmer, Hoon -*. . JJay # McDonald; Donald John, labourer, 133 . Paoke street. McDonald, Patrick Francis, crane driver, 102 Papanui road. McGoverne; Lionel Gourtman Joseph, 254 Esplanade. New Brighton. Mahony. James, unemployed, 14 Bowenvale avenue, Cashmere. ; McLauchlin. Edward Alexander, milk . hand, Tuahiwi. . . McMurray, Joseph Cairns, shop assist- ; ant, .Salvation Army Home. Moore, Randolph Earle, unemployed. Salvation Army Men’s Home, Ad- . dingtori. .’ , , - _ Murphy, John Joseph, unemployed, 135 Neville street. Noonan, Alfred George, motor mech.anic, 27 Picton avenue, Riccar- ■■■■ ■ ton. _ O’Connor. Thomas bootmaker, 396 Colombo street. -V Orchard. Rex Walter, council employee, 123 Peterborough street; 5 Palmer, Stanley Edward, labourer. Rol-

leston. , Paton, John, labourer, 135 Ferry road. Peat, Robert Herbert, electric welder. 45 Roper street. Peterson. Roland Alexander, linesman, Paramarua. Richardson, Francis Syar Smith, baker, Grafton street, ■ Sumner. Robinson, David Leslie, labourer, 205 Antigua street. Scoles, John . Joseph, railway work* shops employee, 28 Shakespeare road. Smith, James, labourer, Templeton. Smythe, Peter Barrington, journalist, 166 Beach road. Sullivan. Denis Verdun, waiter, Bushside, via. Ashburton. ■ Thompson. Keith Hughie, farm hand, Greenpark. Toon, Martin Sherrard, cook, 54 Mar- { riott’s road, New Brighton. Tretheway,- .■ Albert William George, . bootmaker, 396 Colombo street.: Turnbull, Eric Raymond, labourer, 136 . Rolleston street. ; . . Tutty. Ralph Linton, horse. trainer, 37 ' North-East Belt, Ashburton. Wilson., Horton William, labourer, Kaii apo'i.' Wright,* Maxwell James, labourer, 82 ’' Byron , street,, Sydenham.