CALL TO ARMS

Evening Post, Volume xc, Issue 79, 1 October 1915, Page 7

CALL TO ARMS

MANY MORE MEN REQUIRED 1 In spite of the frequent appeals that have been made for recruits during the--, past week, recruiting in Wellington still continues to ' be disappointingly small. Since noon yesterday only 24 men have handed in their medical papers at No. 5 Group Office, after having been examined by the doctor. When so many men are urgently required for the mounted rifles and infantry of -the lOth draft going into camp in six weeks this v rate of enlistment ie considered not ftalf what it should be, especially as, in the number mentioned unfits are included. This being -the case, it is plain that " the call to arms " at present is generally falling upon deaf ears. The 24 men who have returned their medical papers are as under :—: — Thompson, Walter, steward Crombie, William Douglas, Government Printing Office Redmond, Hector Leo Jack, clerk M'lntyre, George Barclay,' miner Wells, Joseph Evan, labourer Wilson, Alan John, seaman Murray, Len, labourer Goodwin, Albert Eric, messenger Coffey, John, bank clerk Cummings, James Stuart, engineer " Knox, Alfred Robert, meat preserver Laloh, Lewis William, miner Stephenson, Luther, salesman Boyd, Noel Blaney, commercial traveller % Champion, John Stanley, cook BalKnger, Eric Arthur, engineer Hubbard, Frederick, clerk x Cummins, Matthew William, postal clerk Lynch, Richard William, compositor Gill, Percy, accountant Barrett, Leonard John, B Company, sth (Wellington) Regiment, confectioner v Clayton, Robert, gasfitter Watson, Reginald M. L., painter Hartley, Harold L., window-dresser. TO THS EDITOR. Sir, — I hope you will allow me the space in your paper to say a few words on the recruiting system in New Zealand. I think the authorities and the public afc large will hold with me. I have made it my business to frequent the majority of the hotels, the wharves, and other places in the city of Wellington, and I can say without fear or hesitation that there is no necessity for the platform or advertisement. The only thing that the men require is a little encouragement, and this can be given by about half a dozen men of practical experience going about in uniform and explaining matters to them. I know from experience that with a system to work on this would increase the recruiting, not only in the city but throughout the Dominion, by at least 30 per cent. I would like to say a lot more on this subject, but being a British soldier I am not supposed to correspond with the press. — I am, etc., DOING MY BIT. Wellington, 30th September.,