STIMULUS TO RECRUITING

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22909, 4 January 1940, Page 8

STIMULUS TO RECRUITING

CAMPAIGN RESULTS 246 ENLISTMENTS IN NINE DAYS The ' stimulus given to recruiting since the campaign was begun on December 22 is shown by the latest figures. For the fortnight ended December 22, 69 registrations were made, the records at offices being:—Christchurcn 60, Ashburton 2, Timaru 7. Nine rer cruiting days later the registrations for the district are 246. Christchurch has contributed 218 men, Ashburton b, and Timaru 19. Recruiting was brisk in Christchurch yesterday, the recruits to a p.m. numbering 37, the best day but one since the initial rush of enlistees at the outbreak of the war. • Yesterday's enlistments, excluding one man whose name was not available for publication, were:— Anderson, Oswald, shunter, 261 Cashel street. Christchurch. Armstrong, Leslie Thomas, labourer, 73 Lanfidons road, Papanui. Barr, Ronald, bootmaker. 488 Hagley avenue. Christchurch. Bassett, Colin Holmah, pastoralist, ' Burnt Hill, Oxford. Bate, Hugh Seddon, painter and paperhanger, 290 Cashel street. Christchurch, Bell, John Leslie, metal polisher. Brodie. Charles William, labourer,/ Oxford Hotel, Oxford. Buttle. Leo Oswald, unemployed, 62 Poulson street, Christchurch. Clarke. Fred, apprentice plumber, 6 Grants road, Papanui. Conaghan, Francis Joseph, freezing worker. Islington. Cook. Ernest Reid, factory hand, 73 Winters road, Papanui. Coyle, Thomas Henry, blacksmiths striker, 448 Armagh street Christchurch. . Dennison. Frank, mechanic. Birch Hill. Dewar, Alexander Robert, farmer, Bennetts. , , . Donovan. Michael Edgar, contract labourer, 16 Queen street, Islington. Grant, David James, farm labourer, Oxford. ' ' ' Jarvis Harold Norman, french polisher, 419 Montreal street- Christchurch. Kennedy, Charles Henry, labourer, 56 Victoria street, New Brighton. Leney. Gordon John, storeman, 17 Warrington street, St. Albans. Macnab, lan Gordon, poultryman, Sunnyside Mental Hospital, Christchurch. Marsh, George Henderson, tractor driver, Methven. Pickering, Allan William, labourer, Islington. Pullar, Robert Dott. Public Works labourer, 52 Windsor terrace, Richmond. Reynish, Thomas Crowther, truck driver, Pigeon Bay. Reynolds. Kitchener, bushman, 90 Salisbury street. Christchurch. Rogers, Montague Edmond, garage attendant, 167 Montreal street, Christchurch. Rose, Rupert, unemployed, 298 Hereford street, Christchurch. Sergison, William Neil, barman, Canterbury Hotel, Lyttelton. Shand. Edwyn Aisne, shepherd, Island Hills, Culverden. Smith, Cecil Gordon, blacksmith's striker, 146 Durham street, Christchurch. Stechmann, Ronald Bertie, farm labourer, c/o. Loader Bros., Lyttelton. Stubbs, Keith, and farm labourer, Oxford. Weir. David Telford, shop assistant, 671 Worcester street, Christchurch. Williams,. Herbert George Williams, sawmiller, Te Kinga, West Coast. MAORI BATTALION Bennetts. Harry George, factory hand, 114 Seaview road, New Brighton. TIMARU [Prom Our Own Reporter] TIMARU, January 3. Seven enlistments for the 2nd Echelon of the Special Force were received at Timaru to-day, bringing the total to 452. The local recruiting officer expressed the hope to-day that since the holiday period was over and normal conditions had returned recruiting would be stimulated, and that those who intended to enlist would do so at once. > To-morrow a medical board will sit to examine 35 men, in addition to a number of others who are coming forward for reclassification. To-day's enlistments were:— Campbell, Norman Leslie, grocer's assistant, Timaru. Dellow, Noel, radio assistant, Timaru. Duffy, Francis Patrick, truck driver, Timaru. Forrest, Robert Henry, labourer, Timaru. Kemp, Arthur Allan, clerk, Timaru. Weir, John Montgomery, labourer, Timaru. Earlier enlistments were:— Gillespie, Gordon Alexander, Timaru. Mcintosh, Cecil, Cave. O'Rourke, Vincent William, Timaru. Sole, Eric John, Waimate. Waller, Ernest Henry, Raukapuka. GREYMOUTH [From Our Own Reporter] GREYMOUTH, January 3. There were 14 enlistments to-day at Greymouth. They were:— Atkinson, John Shanahan, Jacob's river, South Westland. Aldridge, Reginald Morgan, Lewis Pass, Reefton. Barrow, lan James, Greymouth. Bigwood, Arthur Henry, Greymouth. Ford, Leslie Lauston, Greymouth. Ford, Ronald Robert, Greymouth. Gibbons, Walter Herbert, Maruia. Gibberd, Clive Roimata,. Jacksons. Kelly, Claude, Ngahere. Newman, Francis William, Hokitika. Raine, Eric Edward, Hokitika*. Smith, Henry Albert, Hokitika. V Warren. Josiah Frederick, Kotuku. Weenick, Neil Leonard, Greymouth.

ASHBURTON

Three enlistments at Ashburton yesterday brought the total for the depot to 175. The latest enrolments, are:— White, Thomas Stanley, 113 Peter street, Ashburton. . „ Lloyd, Robert Allan, 192 Mam South road, Ashburton. Healey, George, 65 Middle road. Ashburton.

OAMARU

[From Our Own Reporter] OAMARU, January.3. - Eighteen enlistments for the 2nd Echelon of the Special Force have been made in Oamaru, according to a report of the Oamaru enlistment officer at; 2 p.m. yesterday. The majority of the enlistments were made in the last two weeks. _______^ — _—