HEALTHY RECRUITING
48 ENLISTMENTS YESTERDAY DETACHMENTS FOR CAMP Volunteers for military service, for training in the North Island camps of Papakura and Ngaruawahia, left this morning by the express for the north. These men have been drafted to artillery regiments or to various mechanised units. To-morrow, a small band also journeys north to Treutham camp, while on Friday a fairly big contingent is to leave by the first express for Burnham. The call for volunteers continues to meet with a very gratifying response, enlistments yesterday totalling 48. ihe majority of those offering their servic6S are single men. Details available for publication arc: Group 2 (single men); George Thomas Miller, Don Greenall, Albert Freeman, Sylvester llhssell, llangi Ora Tura, Richard Goughian, Lawrence George Glue, John Nightingale, Joe Harding, Hake Mate Hampstead, Harry Burgess, Gilbert Hall, Thomas Andrew Adamson, Robert Louis Newburn, Arthur James Jamieson, George Victor Booth, George Barton Harneiss, Victor Fanning Kett, James Robertson, Robert John Purvis, Hallam Isaac, Charles John' Smith, George Edward Todd, Arthur Boyd Howison, Dunedin: Frank Geary, Gordon William Kingan, Gordon Moffitt, Mosgiel; William Lindsay Costello, Otokia; Thomas Francis Menzies, Sawyers Bay; Thomas Charles Vitherson, Halfway Bush; Frank David Smith, Ravensbourne; Charles Leslie Wilson, Palmerston; Richard Wratten, Owaka; David Francis Stewart, Hakataramea; Frank Archibald Gray, Oamaru. Group 3 (married men without children) : Charles Paterson, Clifford Stanley Hodgkins, and George Edward Rex Smith, Dunedin. Group 4 (married men with children) : Frederick Charles Griffen, Guy Winter, John Amos Wood, Hector M'Kellar Fraser, Melvin Jack Forrester, David Reginald Rowntree; Albert Knapp, and William Gardiner, Dunedin, 1
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Evening Star, Issue 23470, 10 January 1940, Page 6
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257HEALTHY RECRUITING Evening Star, Issue 23470, 10 January 1940, Page 6
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