THE CALL FOR MEN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2757, 28 April 1916, Page 6

THE CALL FOR MEN

PURGING THE ROLLS

78 ARTILLERYMEN TO JOIN

INFANTRY

Purging tho rolls in the No. 6 Group (Wellington City and Suburbs) is proceeding, and up till yesterday good progress had been made at the Headquarters Recruiting Office. Tho Artillery section has been finished) and 78 men, who bad enlisted for this branch of the service, have been notified that as the Artillery Reinforcements aie full for many months to come, they are being transferred to tho infantry. The names of those mon who refuse to accept the transfer will be struck off the waiting list and added to tho National Register of those unregistered for war service. ; The ■names of those accepting tho trans, fer will bo published in the Press. Seeing that thoro is such a shortages of infantrymen, all .thoso men who have been waiting to be called up for other branches of tho sorvico and who transfer to the infantry, will have an opportunity of going into camp at onco. Men registering for the 15th Reinforcements arc sent into camp daily. Those who wish to join the 16th are advised to notify Headquarters Recruiting Office for No. 5 Group, as soon as possible, because the latter draft will parade at the Drill Hall, Buckle Street, on Monday' next, and will be sent into camp the following day. * • At present Wellington's quota for the

Fifteenths is 10 short, three men having been sent to Trentham Camp yesterday. Their names are: —W. J. Reynolds, H. Haaponsen, and M. Brown.

Passed as Medically Fit, Following are tho namei of tho latest recruits who 'have been passed as medically fit: — E. J. O'Sullivan, cabinetmaker, City (Infantry). Denis Breen,- labourer, City (Infantry}. Percy H. Wilson, printer, Lower Hutt (Infantry;. C. E. Rolston, bushman. Johnßonville

(Infantry). '. E. D. Godfrey, railway employee, City (Infantry). Carl W. Wilson, motor mechanic, Kolburn (Infantry). Charles Merilla, carpenter, City (Infantry). Michael V. Mullaney, contractor, Lower Hutt (Infantry). A. H. Clifton; Reikioraiigi, farmer (Infantry). Arthur James Ham, labourer, City (Infantry). AVilliam Germain, teamster, Eketahuna (Infantry). ■-

RECRUITING IN AUCKLAND

SATISFACTORY RESULTS. By Telesjraph.—Presß Association. Auckland, April 27. The weekly progress report issued by the Defence Department this afternoon shows:—Available men and n.c.o.'s in the various centres in No. 1 (City) Group, 777 (tho men are available for all branches of service); in No. 2 (Paeroa), ISO men, and No. 3 (Whangarei), lOS'mon, and in No. 4 (Hamilton), 199; grand total of 1234.

These figures, however, cover several future ReinfWccra-int drafts. The position in regard to infantry is that Auckland has CO2 available; Paeroa, 89; Whangarei, 76; Hamilton, 121; and if the whole of these men were for the sixteenth draft, which leaves on Tuesday, the various quotas would be practically full in every case, and largely over-subscribed in the City itself; in point of fact, however, the" men immediately available in country districts for the next Reinforcement are short by well over ;>O, and ibis will h.ivo be made up \v City recruits who nie waiting to be called up: Both the sixteenth and seventeenth of the City quotas are filled, and tho eighteenth's j are well on die wsy lo completion.

A. E. M. -Rowland, the Public Service Optician and Jeweller, has been appointed spectacle maker to the Wellington Hospital. Further, tho firm offers 15 per cent, discount to soldiers and their friends when purchasing for them. See Rowland's "Get-rich-qnick Sale," 90 Manners Street.—Advt.