THE PERSONAL CANVASS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17164, 10 May 1916, Page 8

THE PERSONAL CANVASS.

POSITION IN LYTTELTON.

NOTHING DONE

In common with other local bodies in the Dominion the Lyttelton Borough Council received the Recruiting Board’s circular soliciting help in the personal canvass for recruits, and some weeks hack the council, after digesting the circular and discussing it at length, resolved, with one dissentient, to form itself into a Recruiting Centre to further the work of the personal canvass in the borough. That, with the exception of a couple of fruitless meetings, is as far as the personal canvass has got in i»yttelton. At Monday night’s meeting of the Borough Council, the Mayor (Mr W. Radcliffe) reported that he was extremely disappointed that nothing had yet been done in the matter. Citisens seemed to take absolutely no interest in it whatever, and he could get nobody to assist in the work. The suburbs and city of Christchurch were nearly through with the canvass, and if Lyttelton did not movo he would, consider the question of obtaining a few helpers and doing the work without a committee. Yesterday Mr Radcliffe, m conversation with a reporter, said that two public meetings had been fruitless, and he would wait for a week to see if he could get any better response. It would not he a very difficult job, because practically all the population was known to them. At the same, time, he would like to say that Lyttelton had responded particularly well, and, he had no doubt, had contributed more than its quota.