WELLINGTON'S RESPONSE

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 78, 1 April 1916, Page 5

WELLINGTON'S RESPONSE

ISfch SHORTAGE.

' Infantry are required urgently for the Ko. 5 Area Group quota for the 15th Reinforcement to be mobilised on Tuesday There was a slightly improved response to the call to arms yesterday, but the position of the 15th Reinforcements is as bad as ever, since- very few of the men enlisting are willing to go into camp at once with the infantry. Following are the names o£ men passed as medically fit: —

Woodward, .John, mechanic (infantry) Boyle, James, electrical engineer (engineers) Riggs, Bert, railway man (infantry) Booth, Eric Leonard, scraper (infantry) Couper, John Davidson, grocer's assistant (infantry) Sloane, T. S. B.", dispenser (mounted corps) Ballinger, James T. coppersmith (infantry) . Knapp, Harry, timber-yard man (infantry) I Nicholson, Andrew W., compositor (infantry) Young, Arthur Henry, labourer (infantry) Williams, Percy L., farm hand (infantry) Williams, Cyril Ernest, farmer (infantry) Hey, Joseph A., labourer (mounteds) Drewitt, David Lloyd, farmer (infantry) Sullivan, John Francis, wireless operator (wireless) Varnham, Harold, farmer (infantry) Stalker, John, Civil servant (signallers) Waetford, Charles, bushman (infantry) Walters, John, prison warder (infantry) JVTulhane, William John, clerk (infantry) Hutchinson, Harry George, sheet metal worker (infantry) Marsell, George, station hand (infantry) Burns, Robert, fitter (engineers)