CHRISTCHURCH AREA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17311, 28 October 1916, Page 9

CHRISTCHURCH AREA.

ELEVEN ENLISTMENTS YESTERDAY. Eleven enlistments were made yesterday at the Christchurch Recruiting Office. The names included the following, all being for the infantry except where otherwise stated. Ernest Charles Rhind, Burnaide Koad, Fendalton, architect. Stanley A. Elliott, 1050, Colombo Street, clerk. John Henry Grose, Fort Jervois, carpenter. Albert Seara Green, 40, Winchester Street, Lyttelton, joiner. Eric Illingworth, 89, Richardson Street, Opawa, electrician. Robert Mahone, 6, St Asaph Street, Christchurch, labourer. Hedley James Peok, Weka Street, Fendalton,, masseur—Ambulance. Charles Honry Peagram, 77, Princes Street, Woolstonjlabourer.- . Henry'.willcocks, 91, Queen Street, Sydenham, telegraph operator—Signallers. Lawrence Alexander Dow, 358, Gloucester Street, electrical engineer. RECRUITING OFFICE. REMOVAL ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED. The arrangements in connection with the removal of the Government Recruiting Office to the old O.D.C. rooms, Hereford Street, have now been completed, and the officials have settled down in their new quarters. The medical examinations were renewed on Thursday, and will be held daily in future, as before. The new rooms are more, commodious than the offices used in Cathedral Square. The C.D.C. headquarters are now in the next building in Hereford Street,.on the ground floor; their new quarters being directly adjoining the old rooms 'now taken over by the Government Recruiting Office. For the present, the C.D.C. will continue to accept recruits, although the attesting and medical examination of the men must be made at the Government Recruiting Office.