CALL FOR MEN

Evening Star, Issue 23496, 9 February 1940, Page 6

CALL FOR MEN

RESPONSE TO RECRUITING RALLY ONE NEW NAME THIS MORNING Despite the interest aroused by the recruiting rally on Wednesday night, tho response to date must ho termed disappointing. One man came forward this morning to enlist in the forces; it is hoped that tho next few days will tell a different tale. Enlistments over the past few days have shown a steady decline. Tho latest registration was a single man named Duncan M'Callum Plunkett, registered under Group 2. THIRD ECHELON OVER 6,500 MEN TO TRAIN For the third echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force G, officers and men are to go into camp, 2,653 of them at Papakura, 2,333 at Ti entham, and 1,528 at Burnham. The Southern Military District will send 1,280 men, excluding officers and other ranks intended for the Second Nevy Zealand General Hospital, who are to go to Trcntham, and the Medium Battery, New Zealand Artillery, who will he posted to Papakura. The district will also supply 339 men as reinforcements for the first and second echelons, 256 going to Burnham, 59 to Trentham, and 24 to Papakura. Details of the quota for the Southern Military District for the third echelon are:—■ District Unit. Quota. 7th Anti-tank Regt., N.Z.A. ... 39 6th Field Regt., N.Z.A 189 Bth Field Co., N.Z.E 85 H. 6th Inft. Brigade ... ... 17 6th Inft. Anti-tank Co 21 Div. Sigs ... 31 6th Field Amb 76 Provost Co 13 Div. Supply Column 59 26th Rifle Battalion 750 Total 1,280

NEW MEDICAL OFFICER COLONEL SIR HUGH ACLAND APPOINTED The appointment of Colonel Sir Hugh Acland, C.M.G., 0.8. E., as Assistant Director of Medical Services in the Southern Military District has been announced. In 1900 and 1901 Sir Hugh was civil surgeon attached to the Royal Army Medical Corps in South Africa during the Boer War, and in 1912 he joined the New Zealand Medical Corps with the rank of captain. In March, 1915, he went to England to join the R.A.M.C., but while he was on the way he received notice by cablegram that he had been appointed to the No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital with the rank of major. He served for one month at Aldershot with the R.A.M;C., and left for Egypt in June, where he was posted to the hospital at Ponte de Koubbah, which had been taken over by the first N.Z.E.F. This hospital subsequently became the second New Zealand Stationary Hospital, and after staying there temporarily ho joined his own unit, the No._ 1 Hospita, in September, at Port Said. _ When he was moving with his unit to Salonika, on hoard the Marquette, his ship ivas torpedoed and sunk on October 23, 1915, in the Gulf of Salonika, only 40 miles from port. Colonel Acland served in Salonika until March, 1916, when ho returned to Egypt, and was then moved to France in June, being stationed at Amiens. In November he was transferred to England, where he was put in charge of the surgical division of Brockenhurst Hospital, and some time later he was appointed consulting surgeon to the N.Z.E.F. In January, 1919, he returned to New Zealand, taking charge of the military section of the Christchurch Hospital and the Chalmers Ward. In September ho was released from service with the N.Z.E.F., after which he served for part of the time as medical officer and consulting surgeon in charge of artificial linibs until 1922, when he returned to his own practice. He was posted to the reserve list of officers in 1921, and was knighted in 1935.