RECRUITING

Evening Star, Issue 16079, 3 April 1916, Page 3

RECRUITING

DEFENCE MINISTER INTERVIEWED ' [Per Umtf.d Piikss Association.] CHRISTCLIURCH, April 3. Internewed ];>e; right, tile Hon. J. Allen said, with reference, to perfecting the rolls of the Nav mal Register, that not only was the personal effort of the citizens needed, but the rolls Avould be completed, as regards the National Register, under the recruiting boards' scheme. They would add the names of those who had transferred according to their movements, and the result would b« to place iix the- hand* of the- Government a census of all eligible men, which would enable them to thoroughly test the voluntary system, or tu bring *in compulsion if required. No scheme could be brought in without that perfect knowledge of nil eligible men. If -,hey did not carry out a personal canvass, and so perfect the rolls, they were simply asristing the shirker to shirk by their personal neglect. The stateme.it recently issued to the effect that no officer was' to be appointed to a commission unless he had held it previously for 12 mo.iths did not refer to n.c.o.s in camp, but only to Territorial officers. There v,-or«, two wavs to get a commission—ly having had 'l2 months' prcvHHii expe"ie.n co, or by enhsting and going into camp with tho'n.c.o.s. "With. regard t> soldiers and commissions, .Mr \ih-n said that six returned men noni,-! >jo appointed every month. They mint ho in camp, medically