THE CALL FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2620, 16 November 1915, Page 6

THE CALL FOR MEN

CITY'S POSITION FALL IN RECRUITING LAST WEEK HOW THE BOOKS STAND Last week'l73 men enlisted in Wellington. Two-thirds passed the medical test, and one-third railed. The figures are Kt ; ; 114 Unfit i 59 , Total registered' ... 173 Lately the City hati. been registering over 300 men weekly; ;so last week's result represents a heavy drop—a fall of well on toward 150. However,' the percentage of unfitness' is somewhat lower than in previous weeks. About 40 per cent, of those who registered enlisted for infantry. The infantry figures arcy:— .' Fit ; ; 4S Unfit 23 Total r 71

The position of the.City at the end [ of last week was that it had 894 men on its books. Three hundred and eleven of these are under oi:ders to parade this morning to be sent into camp. When the draft is dispatched to-day the City should have alt least 600 men on its register as a commencement i'or the December draft. However, men are still wanted, as muny of those on the books have signed on for . Ambulance and A.S.C. On Saturday thero were 131 A.S.C. candidates on tho waiting list, and only five arm wanted as our quota for this month'gi force. At that rato, it will tako just over two years to work off the present supply. Or, the last five of these recruits will get t'heir chance to go ifefco camp so soon as December, 1917. ' Taking our total rrnmber of current registrations, and deducting the numbers which aro to «nter camp to-day, the position in which we set out to secure onr December quota was at the end of last week Pit men. Mounted 25 . Artillery 175Engineers f>B Signal Service 15 Infantry 68 A.S.C 126 Ambulance 106

. - Total -583 It is noticeable that of the list of seventeen fit recruits issued at Buckle Street yesterday sixteen signed on for the two branches in which men are most needed—infantry and mounted. Thirteen stated a preference for the infantry, and three for the mounted arm. The only one who registered for ambulance is a dispenser. Tho names which compose yesterday's list are:— / John .Sullivan, tailor, Palmerston ortli (Infantry). > Thomas A. Watts, labourer, Ohakuno (Infantry). Georgo Edward Boniface, butler, City (Infantry).

Reuben Smith, fireman, City (Mounteds).

Reginald Arthur Ponting, farmer, City (Infantry). Daniel Arthur O'Leary, railway employee, Newtown (InfantTy). James Edwards, labourer, Paraparaumu (Infantry). John Wilson, seaman, City (Infantry). William Albert Lowe, theatre manager, City (Infantry); John Percy Barrington, salesman, City (Infantry). Wallace It. Gooding, dispenser, Otaki (Ambulance). M'illiam George ' Fearn, painter, Northland (Infantry). George Meredith Wright, braissmoulder, Newtown (Infantry). Douglas Frank Howell, farmhand, Parapararumu (Ihfantry). Morrison Passinore, commercial broker, Newtown (Mounted). Herbert Victor Arnold, exchange j clerk, Brooklyn (Infantry). ! John M'Carthy, labourer, CitW (Mounted). 1

GOING TO CAMP TO-DAY

THE STRENGTH OP THE DRAFI

CITY MEN TO MARCH

Tho mobilisation of the Tenth Reinforcements commences this morniing. The Wellington City drafts- will mairch througli the principal streets en ra uto for Lambton Railway Station at ab out ten o'clock. An endeavour is bfjing made to get the draft into camp bei foro midday,, and it is proposed to li:ave Lamb ton by a train due out at 10.3 0. The march of the Wellington men will be headed by a band, and the , men should total 355, as follow:— Quota for Tenth 311 N.C.O.'s for Twolftli 33 Ambulance 11 1355 The City's quota of 311 men for the Tenth is composed as under: — Mounted 96 Artillery 48 . Engineers _ -. ' 20 'Signal Service i 6' Infantry ! 130 A.S.C 5 : Ambulance 6 Total 311 The men for the Tenth draft wil 1 number 2780, and the four military d istricts have been called on to make nip the total with tho following contribut ions:— i'Men.Auokland Military District ... : 467 Wellington Military District 1274 Canterbury Military District 659 Otago Military District .' 380 The chief branches of tlie Fonce aro the infantry and mounted. Thii district contributions to those arms are :— Infantry. Mounted. Auckland 300 85 Wellington 808 ; 314 Canterbury 450 130 Otago ,- 246' 95 Total : 1804 : 624 The numbers called up for th b various arms of the force are:— Infantry L 1804 Mounted 624 Artillery ■. 162 Engineers . 93 Signal Service ]9 A.S.C 38 Ambulance i... 40

2780 The men from tlio other : portions of the Wellington Military 'District are under orders to reacli Treiifchnm Camp to-day. The Auckland an d. the South Island men should arrive! to-day and to-morrow. ;