RECRUITING IN CANTERBURY

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23054, 24 June 1940, Page 6

RECRUITING IN CANTERBURY

211 ENLISTMENTS DURING WEEK-END * During the week-end 211 enlistments were received in the Canterbury area lor overseas service, bringing the total for the week to 584. The daily totals were:—Monday, 71; Tuesday, 76; Wednesday, 99; Thursday, 75; Friday, 62; Saturday and Sunday, 211. . As a result of medical examinations held yesterday, 62 men were classed as fit for overseas service, 15 as unfit, one as temporarily unfit, and two were not graded. On Saturday 32 men were classed as fit and 18 as unfit. In X-ray examinations of men for overseas service, held yesterday and on Saturday, the following are the numbers of men who failed to pass the test: 5, 6, 32, and 61. They will probably be warned to attend a further medical examination. GREYMOUTH IFrom Our Own Reporter.] GREYMOUTH. June 22. There were nine enlistments at Greymouth to-day. raising the effective district total to 795. The latest recruits, excepting two names not available for publication, were:—-Mason, K. C.; Reid, E. J.; Dale, N. M.; Armstrong, J. H-; Anderson, W.; Webber, J. W.; Edmunds, T. Three recruits, the two last-named and one not for publication, have enlisted in the Forestry CompanyMORE POSTINGS TO CAMP MEN FOR NGARUAWAHIA AND TRENTHAM Further postings to various military units have been announced, and the men will proceed to their respective camps this week. Following is the list: — Ngaruawahia Camp From Christchurch: G. H. Smith, J. W. Bunting, A. Whiting, W. K. Cornelius, B. J. Woodham, G. J. F. Mitchell, A. J. Bourne, F.. E. Waterworth, L. F. Johannis, J. McGuinness, J. D. Crutch, M. P. Chapman, R. E. McKenzie, A. F. Loose, M. D. Jeffrey, G. T. Gibbs, J. G. Morgan, E. B. Roberts, J. West, A. W. Hartshorne, C. M. Price, H. G. Ledgard, R. B. Gibbons, R. G. Jackson, F. T. Warren, W. A. Thornton, K. H. Butler, J. M. Griffith, J. W. Morgan, M. J. Chapman, G. G. Leggett, G. W. Cope, J. F. V. Depr.ee, L. W. Brown, J. H. Burke, R. J. Ewart, L. T. Stuart, T. M. Evans, D. L. Farmer. A. W. Hunter, E. G. Ewart, S. Boyle, L. F. J. McAloon. From Lyttelton—A. E. ‘C. Reed, R. C. Berryman, W. G. Davie. From New Brighton—L. H. McClelland, J. Hales, G. Alves, R. D. Comfort. From Cave —R. C. Weavers. From Timaru —A. S. Williams, S. M. Wade, J. Fyfe, A. M. Woodman, H. J. Hawke. . , . From -Waimate—E. G. Bishop, H. A. A. Clough. From Sefton —J. B. Wills. Trentham Camp From Christchurch —O. S. Palmer, W. Mitchell, D. Mitchell, J. Kite. R. J. Popplewell, F. M. Jones, F. A. Turner, J, Morrison, A. E. East, A. W. Price, P. H. Adamson, C. Jones, H. Stanley, H. M. Mclver, H. Gregory, N. Jull, R. J. Gollan, J. T. Ayers. W; C. Lidgett, B. H. Marsden. From Hanmer —A. McQuaker, I. W. Galilee. From Balmoral —G. J. Dench, F, T. Morrison. From Rangiora—J. B. Grubb, L. G. Fantham. From Hurunui —F. R. E. Craig. From Ashburton—R. B. Divers. . , From Eyrewell—P. C. Sexton. From Hornby—H. K. Brown. From Lyttelton—A. T. Roberts. From Timaru —L. J. Woolford. RELEASE OF MEN FOR SERVICE ACTION OF SOME EMPLOYERS RESENTED (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, June 22. The Wellington Manpower Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr M. F. Luckie, Deputy-Mayor, has been faced with some difficulties over pleas from employers for an extension of time for men called up for seryice. It was decided yesterday that a stand had to be taken where employers were not doing their part. The committee had before it numerous cases where men who enlisted three, four, five, and even six months ago, were now being called up, and even at this late stage their employers were putting in pleas for further extensions or relief because they said it took so long to train men to replace them. The committee could not have much sympathy with employers who had not taken advantage of the opportunity to train substitutes and would not take serious notice of such pleas where employers had not played their part, said' Mr Luckie. The committee considered it the obvious duty ,of employers to begin the training of substitutes as soon as they received notice that men were accepted "for service. When they had not taken'reasonable action, the Manpower Committee could not listen with much sympathy to pleas for a further extension of time.