RECRUITS FOR THE SEVENTH.

Evening Star, Issue 15817, 31 May 1915, Page 4

RECRUITS FOR THE SEVENTH.

OTAGO MAKES A GOOD START, BIT WANTS 250 MORE MEN" WITHIN THE NKXT FORTNIGHT. Although the quota for the new unit naturally absorbed the majority of "the men who would, under ordinary circumstances, have found their way into the Seventh'-.Re-inforcements for the splendid New Zealand Infantry Brigade which is making history on the Oallipoli Peninsula, it is pka.sing to be able to record the fact that, although the reinforcements leave for the Dominion Training Camp at Trentham on Saturday week, Otago has already made a good start towards filling her quota of infantry.

All tlio mounted men requited are available, and, a considerable number of men lor the infantry have signed on. It is, of course., the latter arm of the service which makes the biggest call on the district, and although <> gocd many men are enlisted quick recruiting will be required in order to .secure the additional 250 men to complete the quota before the day of entrainment. No doubt, in view of "the splendid response throughout the district to the call for men for .the new unit. a further effort will bo made to secure a full quota this time. If this can be done it should do much towards averting further criticism in the North about the slowness of recruiting in tlie .Southern district*. The Recruiting Committee meet this afternoon to consider the question. A SUCCESSFUL CARNIVAL. (HSBORNE. May 31. The Poverty Bay Racing Club's contribution to the carnival queen closed with a total subscription of £5.127. This has been allocated to the following purposes: —Hospital ship. £2.130; wounded. £l.B-17; Belgians. £1.050; Sorbinns. £9O; anuL'Stheties. £2O. The Carnival Commit toe repi'.it having £25.000 in hand. Tnev expert to raise the amount to £30,000 by Thursday. FIJIANS IN ACTION. SUVA. May 25. Of the Fiji contingent in Belgium, six were killed in action and three died of wounds. Twelve were wounded out. of i 45 who were engaged in the trendies. ! [The above message was received by the ! Makura, which arrived at Auckland from i Suva to-day.] j GENEROUS JOCKEYS.* j AUCKLAND. May 31. A meeting of jockeys hold thi.s morning decided to <_'ivo 10 per cent, of their tiding fees on the first, day of the Auckland Meeting to the fund for wounded soldiers, also to ask rideis at the (Itaki and Dunodin meetings to do the same. NEW ZEALAND'S EFFORT. TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND MEN TO DATE. WELLINGTON. May 31. The Prime Miniftei slates that* up to the present- New Zealand had despatched 17.000 men. Within the next fortnight there would be 7,000 in cam;) at Trontham. making a grand total of 24.000. THE PUMMER-HALL PATRIOTIC COMPANY. Messrs Harry I ) limmor..and Winter Hall to-day forwarded i cheque for £SOO to the Hon. W. F. Massey. being a further instalment paid over to the Belgian fund as a. result of their company's, tour of North Island, and making £2.000 ?,.• far paid to that fund. Tn addition, tho company handed £275 to the local Patriotic Society at Masteiton for the relief of wounded .soldiers, and wove instrumental in giving £152 to tho ( hrlsichureh patriotic, fund as tho result of the salo of a flag at one of their perfoi mauces in that city. DEATH OF PRIVATE ROSEVEAR. News was. received to-day of the death of Private E. J. Rosevear. a signaller, who left the Dominion with the main body of the Expeditionary Force. Private Rosevear was the eldest son of Mr E. A. Rosevear ['president of the Oiago Centre. X.Z.A.A.A.)., and was 21 years of age. He was educated at the Albany Street School, and later on at tho Otago Boys' lligh School, where, he -was a member of the- school Defence Cadets. When the Territorial scheme was introduced he joined the Divisional Signal Company, where he became very proficient. .On enlisting for active service he went into camp, with the mounted signallers at Palmers-ton North, and v».s selected for signalling' duties aboard the troopship Maungnnui—the Headquarters vessel. Private JRosevear was a well-known amateur athlete, he being a prominent member of the D.A.A.C. and St. Kiida Club, winning several handicap events in a style which stamped him as a runner of great possibilities. He was employed in Messrs Patterson and Barr's ironmongery business. It will be remembered that when leaving for the front the pupils of the Albany Street School presented him with a horse. To-day. on receipt of the news of his death, the pupil.; of the 4th. sth. and 6th Standards were paraded under the half-masted Union Jack, and stood at the salute while the last post was sounded by Bugler K. Jenkins to i the accompaniment of muffled drums.