DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 22 May 1915, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

RECRUITING IN THE SOUTH

OUR NURSES' CONTINGENTS,

NAPIER'S INTERNMENT RESOLU-

TION

BY TFtEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION-. WELLINGTON. May 21. , In addition to the houses already placed at the disposal of the Government for our convalescent soldiers, the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, Minister of Public Health, has received, a communication from Mr J. N. Williams, of Frimley, Hawke's Bay, offering his kouse for the same purpose.

Clo3e on 300 men{liave now^yftswe|:«fl ''the call to enlist, and Southland'B quota in the special force is 400. Kecr.uiting is to be vigorously carried out during the next fortnight, and it is confidently anticipated that fully 500 men I will come forward.

WELLINGTON, May 21. The members of the First Contingent is >oi New. Zealand Nurses now being raise cd .. by the? Government for service in s Europe are* sailing by the Marama for I Sydney to-n>ghfc. They were fare welled at BeuamyV-this afternoon. Miss Camhas been • appointed Matron-in--1 ®X * of the Contingent. She has been ' ' /& 'n?^ aare of tne St. Helens Hos- ' fliatfoTiv^ '"stchurch, and ' previous to i fiitaij t*v- +,he^ Cambridge Sanatorium that was a*/ * ~ ud f or five years at st. % ffr.ttfo years v h MigQ Cameron is Hefe^, Christc.^ V bavin m Austrahan-tra-?« st^ff of heeii a member -oi. .*. . xnctona. O^s Di3triot> Ho^^A ictona^ '■.■.. * , L ,*% -qeting called by A largily attend^a i»- of a deputathe tityM at the MfliiWt % +o fortion of 25flie§ to-night deeJO^. ""+er ward a petition t<s the T?Affi& "&***» praying that all parties sh#t!d |«ifl- b*, taking more active to remove Germans and other alien enemies from responsible positions, and i& nlOfe stringently and completely control the Ger- '»• element in New Zealand." The ftl -»ting also carcried a resolution conm* Mlatins: General Botlia on" his sueP^\ "i German South-west Africa. .cess x ■ ■ '.•'_■■;; ;.,,.......