NELSON'S FINE RECRUITING
DEFENCE MINISTER'S CON GBATULATIONS.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Nelson, January 4,
The Hon. J. Allen, Acting-Pcgimer and Defence Minister, visited Nelson to take part in the farewell to the quota of the Twenty-fourth. Reinforcements, raised. voluntarily. The men. were addressed by Sir. Allen, who congratulated them on their patriotism. There would, he said, be no need for enforcing th© ballot anywhere if all the districts did as Nelson, and Auck land had done. The Minister delivered a recruiting Gpeech at Motueka last night. The Twenty-fifth quota is also full, and the Twenty-sixth is thirty men short.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2969, 5 January 1917, Page 4
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