THE CALL FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2484, 10 June 1915, Page 7

THE CALL FOR MEN

RECRUITING CAMPAIGN OTAGO'S ELEVENTH HOUR RUSH . Recruiting is not so brisk in Well- : irigton as it was a week or two ago, - out in the South Island.au improve- • meut seems to have set in. Otago lias : created a big surprise by over-subsc'.-ib- : iug its quota at the eleventh hour. A week ago, an Otago shortage- for the Seventh Reinforcement draft looked highly probable, but -a final appeal to 1 the district was so well answered by 1 the men that a selection will now have to bo made to decide who shall go to tlie front. The members of Otago men who enrolled for the Seventh w&re: — Mounted Rifles—Dunedin, o4; Inverlargill, 37; Oama.ru, 42; Milton, 25. Infantry—Dunedin. 141; Invercargill, 124; Oamaru, 83; Milton, 39. The' members required to leave for Trentham on Saturday are: ■ Mounted Rifles—Dunedin, 20; Invercargill, 25; Oamaru, 35; Milton, 25. .Infantry—Dunedin, 74; Invercargill, 100; Oamaru, 80; Milton, 39. . Following are the recruiting figures for the Seventh, and Eighth Reinforcement® for the Canterbury military district up till the end of last week:— Oflier . , • MR. Inf. Units. Total. Christchurch 114 241 15!) 514 Timaru 86 156 56 298 Kaiapoi 43 117 26 186 Greyjnouth ... 1 53 2 56 Nelson < 22 108 54 184 226 675 297 1238 The West Coast quota for the Seventh Reinforcements has Been selected. Tie number, whioh is smaller than usual, consist® of about 23 men, 14 from Greymouth, and nine from Westport. The men will assemble in Greymouth tomorrow morning, and will leave the following day for Christchurch, catching the Wahine from Lytt-elton for Wellington on Saturday night. Already a large number of volunteers have handed in their names to the Greymout-h Defence Office, for inclusion in the Eighth Reinforcements, due to leave about ' the middle of August. ' Recruiting proceeds apace in the Gis- j borne district. On Saturday night 87 ] men presented themselves, and 79 passed * the medical test. It was expected that f Gisborne would be called on to supply ' a number of men to make up the quotaa E from some of the other districts, as £ has been , done in the past, and thus, £ utilise many of the men .who have been 1 Bassed a fit and are waiting to be called 5 up, but advice lias been received that 1 no men will be required from Gisborne, other than the usual quotas of reinforc®- < ments that this district is entitled to * send. The present Gisborne list- tff men < passed as medically fit and reSdy for I servicft, contains 205 names, made up i as follows:—Mounted 57, Infantry 116, 1 Engineers 10, Artillery 20, medical ' 2. • • I Tlie following nen enlisted in Well- ) ington yesterday:— ■( Sidney Clayden, bookbinder. ] Alfred Martin, restaurant proprietor, i Harold S. Smith. i Frederick Albert Hiokman, clerk. i William Leslie M'llwraith, law clerk, i Arthur Sherbrooke. ] 0- J. Bagley, teacher. t Sidney James Donaldson, tram con- ( ductor. . Roydek IVed&rick Caterer, draper.. t Andrew Geofge Williams, holism \ furnisher. • Thomas A. Jones, Civil Servant. J Georgo Leslie Marshall, law clerk. ; ! t