ENLISTMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 23588, 29 May 1940, Page 6

ENLISTMENTS

VOLUNTEERS FORHCOMING RECORD TOTAL TO-DAY Registrations for the special force for overseas service received at the Kensington Drill Hall to-day constituted a record for one day. Fifty-six names were recorded. Of this number 18 are from the Oamaru district, while of the total 13 names are not for publication. The bulk of the registrations are those of single men. Details are as follows: GROUP IA. —Ex-Officers.— Lieutenant William Alec Priest. GROUP 2. —Single Men.— Dunedin; Arthur Archibald Marr, Cecil Raymond Cardlin, Herbert William Bennett, Duncan M’Laren Harrison, Murdoch William M'Kenzie, William Aiken, Francis Lloyd Renwiek, Robert Heaton Parker, Eric Drysdale Anderson, Stanley Robert _ Schmelz, Douglas James Palmer, William Chapman Docherty, Wallace Elliot Ruff, Jack Barrett Bedford, Martin Hanley O’Neill, Douglas Callaghan, George Milligan, Henry George Frewen,' George Alfred Fanning, Clifford John Cadogan, Stanley Wilfred Bishop, Victor Michael Preston. Oamaru: Charles Edward M'Cone, Evan Kenneth M'Gillivray, John Speed, John Albert Doran, Ivan Linly Cayford, John George Cook, Joseph William Halvorsen, William Knight Hayward, William White, Gordoa William M'Cone, Ernest Greaves, Alexander George Sutherland, Warren Marshall, Seymour Frederick Thew. GROUP 3. —Married Men Without Children.— John Moore, John Gaydon Dunnell. GROUP 4. —Married Men With Children.— Alfred Goughian, Alexander Robert M‘Allan, James Gordon Horn (Dunedin), Ivan Thomson Catto (Oamaru). RELEASE OF POSTAL OFFICERS HALF HOLIDAY AT POST OFFICES It is announced from the General Post Office, Wellington, that, in order to facilitate tho release of officers enlisting for war service, it has become necessary to observe a half-holiday at post offices and to reduce slightly the hours of attendance in the evening. Commencing next week, all but the principal post offices will close for a weekly half-holiday, generally a Saturday. At all but the most important centres tho evening attendance will be reduced by the introduction of a tea interval between 5.30 and 7. In addition the present 7 to 8 p.m. attendance at certain offices will be discontinued. Delivery by message boy of telegrams lodged after 6 p.m. will be restricted to - urgent messages, and the free delivery distance will be reduced to 1$ miles from 5 p.m. at all places at which the present free delivery coverage exceeds that distance. By the adoption of the foregoing changes it is hoped greatly to increase the number of postal officers who will be released for service overseas. MAYDR JDINS UP MR R. M. MAGFARLANE. M.P. [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, May 29. Among those to enlist this morning was the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr R. M. Macfarlane, M.P.), who was a caller at the recruiting depot in Cathedral Square. Mr Macfarlane, who is the member of Parliament for Christchurch South, is married and is 39 years of age, and has an eight months old daughter. Commenting on his decision to enlist, the Mayor said he was prepared and had been prepared for a considerable time to take part in any military capacity in which he might be called on to serve, even to going overseas. Since the beginning of the war, however, ho had been devoting all the time he could possibly spare to furthering the necessary organisation of_ war work and the Canterbury Provincial Patriotic Fund in particular. He now felt the time had arrived, in view of the manner in which the war situation had developed, when anyone who could render service, even to the extent of going overseas, should come forward. On the next occasion on which he had an opportunity of delivering a public address he would make some further comment on the war situation and his own attitude. Ho was prepared, be said finally, to take on anything and go anywhere.