FOR SAMOA

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1930, Page 10

FOR SAMOA

VOLUNTEERS ENROLLING

"EAGER AND ADEQUATE

RESPONSE"

Volunteers for service in Samoa arc enrolling promptly and in large numbers in the different centres of the Dominion in response to the call of the Defence Department for men for the special military police force for New Zealand's mandated territory.

A considerable number of volunteers have already come forward in Wellington; and Police Commissioner W. B. M'llveney stated that he is in a position to fill any demand the Defence Department is likely to make. A quota for the four chief centres had been arranged, he added, and hohad been deluged with telegrams from volunteers from all parts of New Zealand. The Police Department was only acting as a recruiting agency for the Defence Department, but there was no limit to the force it could furnish if need be. A number of applicants for positions in the force showed great enthusiasm, and said they were keen to "face the hail of bullets."

Some forty young fellows volunteered in Christchurch yesterday for military police duty in Samoa. Thirty of them applied at the offico of the Superintendent of the Police during the morning, while about ten more volunteered during the afternoon. Major R. A. Rowe, of Southern Command headquarters, informed our correspondent that a number of the men were of a distinctly good type. Their ages ranged from 22 to 24 years, and none of them had served before as Sanioan police. About one man out of every four had been unemployed recently.