VOLUNTARY TRAINING

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 12, 14 July 1931, Page 5

VOLUNTARY TRAINING

% RECRUITING" TOTALS

The followingifigures, showingjthe remits up to 10th July of recruiting iiiuler the scheme of voluntary enlistments for the New Zealand Territoria^Porce, hav'o: been released by the Minister of Defence (the. Hon. J. G. Cohbe). The figures in parentheses are the numbers required for the respective units:— . ..; ' Mounted Rifles. - Central Command, 115 (540); Southern Command, 252 (540). .The total for, the Northern Command will not be avaiable until the • termination of the brigade camp, but. establishment (540) is a.ssured. ' ' , ■ . , .. . Artillery. Northern Command, 325 (859); Central Command, 247 ■- (723); Southern Command, 185.(610). .'• Engineers. Northern"Command, 160 (226); Central Comrhanl; 63 (226); Southern Com.inand, 26 (226). .. ' ■ '" ' Signallers. . ■ ' . (Northern Command, 40 (97); Central Command, 48 (07); Southern Command, 29 (97). ■?■:- ---■ Army Service Corps. ' Northern. Command, 60 (103); Central Command, 47 (103); Southern Command, 36 (103). Medical Corps. ; ' Northern Command, 80 (92); Central Command, 24 (92); S6uthcrn Command, 23 (92). The totals are: Northern Command, 965 (3070)'; Central Command, 961 (2934); Southern Command, 825 (3116). Officers and bandsmen are -not included. The percentages of the numbers who have volunteered to the numbers required are as follows: —Northern Command, 31 per cent.; Central Command, 32 per cent.; Southern Command, 28 per cent.