YESTERDAYS RECRUITING

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22920, 17 January 1940, Page 8

YESTERDAYS RECRUITING

TOTAL OF 29 MEN REGISTERED ENLISTMENTS FOR SECOND ECHELON Recruiting in Christchurch was brisker yesterday, 24 men enlisting by 5 p.m, and an additional five in the evening The total enlistments on Monday were 24. Three • medical boards will sit to-day to examine some 70 men, and on Friday the boards will again be in attendance.

The latest recruits are:— Beardsley, Henry Leonard, carpenter, 12 Pratt street. New Brighton. Boyd, Allen, carpenter, 11 Gibbon street. Sydenham. Buchanan, Evan Andrew, lorry driver.

Waiau. Cook, Robert Francis; unemployed, care

G.P.0., Christchurch. Cordell. Edward Alexander; hotel porter. United Service Hotel, Christchurch. Dacre. Reginald Charles, storeman, 17 Conference street. Christchurch.

Dalzell, James Graham, unemployed. Coldstream. Culverden. Dearman. George Edward, . unem-

ployed, 480 Selwyn street. Christ-

church. Dickson. Carl Spencer, assistant manager. Fashion House, Christchurch (second-lieutenant, artillery). Gwatkin. Reginald William, salesman, 19 Scott street. South Brighton. Heaton. William Percy, cook. 58 Vic-

toria street. Timaru. Herbert. Leslie James labourer. Kimberley. Johnson, Don, steward, 148 Colombo street. Christchurch. Josenh. Stanley Albert, labourer. 120 Ferry road, Christchurch. Mackie. Reginald James, hospital gardener, 7 Torrens road. Hillmorten. Morgan, Alick Henry, soldier, District

School. Bumham. Pope. Ronald Sydney, unemployed, 55 Bangor street. Christchurch: Pratt. Ronald Alfred, plumber's apprentice. 14 Clive street. LinwoodRekowsk: Sydney James, labourer, c/o D. Scarth. Dromore. Robinson. George Austen, soldier. Battery Point. Lyttelton. Rochester. Charles, painter, 62 Poulson

street, Addington. Shell. John Leslie, sheet metal worker. 603 Ferry road. Woolston. Stove. Raymond Alexander, lorry

driver. Waiau. Taylor. Cyril Wilton, labourer. 32 Ollivier's road. Linwood. Turvey. Leo Webster, cook, 39 Berry

street. St. Albans. Wallenburg. Ernest Gibson, electric welder, 10 Acton street. Christ-

church. Whitlow. James Henry, twine mill employee. Parsonage road. Woodend. Whitlow. Wilfred Cornelius, twine mill eronloyee, Parsonage road. Wood-

end. Woods. Sydney John, railway employee. 16 Sydney street, Christchurch. . - GREYMOUTH [From Our Own" Reporter]

GREYMOUTH. January 16. There .were four enlistments to-day at Grey-mouth. ' They were:— Bartle, Stanley Cecil. Reef ton. Gilmour, Thomas .Ruxton Hall. Cobden. Graham, Albert Thcanas, Maruia. .. Lamb'erton, Arthur Alexander, "Nelson ' Greek. The total of .enlistments' at Greymouth is n0w;.384., ' -' * ,'

! RECRUITING ON WEST COAST : ' OFFICER TO VISIT PUBLIC I WORKS CAMPS | [From Our Own Reporter] GREYMOUTH, January, 16. Confidence that the quota of recruits from the district for the 2nd Echelon would be secured was expressed by Major M; Earle Johnson, M.C.. area officer of the Nelson-Marl-borough-West Coast military district, before he returned yesterday to Nelson after a short visit to Greymouth. The.success of the campaign for recruits in the district was largely due, he said, to the interest taken by the citizens and to the splendid co-opera-tion given by local bodies and various organisations. The Greymouth Recruiting Committee had achieved much in a very short time. Major Johnson also said that a recruiting officer was about to be appointed to visit all the c.amps ol the Public Works Department on the West Coast, with an officer of that department. The officers, whose visit might .not.' take place for some time yet, would meet the men in the camps who might wish to enlist, and also local bodies and recruiting committees and offer them help.

FORESTRY UNIT QUICK RESPONSE ON WEST COAST TWENTY-SEVEN ENLIST AT HOKITIKA [From Our Own Reporter] GREYMOUTH, January 16. A quick response to the appeal fcr experienced men to form a forestry unit for service overseas has been received at Hpkitika. where 27 men had enlisted up to last evening - with. the Conservator of State Forests (Mr F. W. Foster), The formation of the unit was announced on Friday by the Commissioner of State Forests - (the Hon. F. Langstone), who said that the Government had accepted the invitation of the War Office to recruit 191 I experienced forest-workers in all ranks. The enlistments are:— .■..■ Grey' Bailey, William George, Greymouth. Chapman, John Joseph, Greymouth. Churchill, Ferguson William. Ikamatua. Dunwoodie, Duncan Joseph, Karoro. Franks. Charles Henry, Ruru. .

Irving, Lloyd George, Ruru. Jackson, Thomas Michael, Jacksons. Kelly, Ralph Norman, Greymouth. Latta, Henry Edward, Ikamatua. Leach, Thomas Andrew, Greymouth. O'Malley, William, Ikamatua. Symes. Vincent Gabriel, Totara Flat, Taafe, Jack Bbsley, Waipuna. Westland District Cameron. Alfred Malcolhv Harihari. Carter, Wilfred George Stephenson, : Hokitika. Chandler, Charles Henry, Kanieri. Douglas. William Jacob, Waitaha. Powell". Edward Averitt, Hokitika. Gearv. David. Kumara. Havill, Leslie Arthur, Koiterangi. Larson. Ernest Vincent, Tainui. Mills, William James. Hokitika. Rogers, Frank, Kanieri. Smyth, William James Wright; - Harihari. ■ •- Stoop, William Ivor, Hokitika. Wallace. Samuel Malcolm, Koiterangi.