STOP PRESS NEWS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1916, Page 3

STOP PRESS NEWS

TELEGRAMS. Ll'KB FUUBS ASSOCIATION.] THE 19th EMNFmiCEMJiNTS. Wellington, This Day. ■Recruiting for the Reinforcements is proceeding satisfactorily and present indications point to the draft being quite full before the last week of this month when the men are due to go into camp to start training. The official figures of the registrations for the infantry, all other arms of the service being full, as ait date ol Friday, 7th instant, are as follows:— Group Short. Sur. No. 1 Auckland City Vo. 2 Paeroa No. 3 Whangarei 35 No. 4 Hamilton 9 Tofca) shortage for Auckland - Military District 34 No. 5 Wellington City 14 No. (5 Pal m erst on North 12 No. 7 Napier 33 * No. 7a Masterton 7 No. 8 Raweru 10 Total Shortage for Wellington Military District 18 No. 9 Christchurch City 31 No. 10 Timaru 7 No. 11 Kaiapoi 3 No. 11a Greymouth 32 No. 12 Nelson 20 Total Shortage for Canterbury Military District 39 No. 13 Dunedin 62 No. 14 Invercargill 1 No. 15 Oamaru * No. 16 Milton 12 Total Shortage for Ota go Military District 80 The total Dominion shortage for the 19th Reinforcements is 161. W. F. MASSEY, Chairman, Recruiting Board. THE TAX ON WAR PROFITS. Auckland. This Div. The Chamber of Commerce pawl a resolution that the tax on war profits is wrong in principle and will, ;n numerous onscs, result in grave injustice l . Tt recommended a more liberal provision to meet cases of hardship than the proposed method, asserting that the stand,n»d income must prove ineffective in case of farmers. Tt suggests that a tax on all exports which have increased in value since "August, 1914, should be imposed.