DOMINION RECRUITING.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13665, 6 September 1916, Page 4

DOMINION RECRUITING.

TWENTY-FIRST REINFORCEMENTS.' (By Telegraph), WELLINGTON, September •! ,1V Chairman of the 'Recruiting ' Board (Hie Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey) has ■, .. issued the following statement of the enlistments for the Twenty-first Reinforcements in the several military districts, as to Friday, Ist September':— ■•" The official figures of enlistments for the infantry for the Twenty-first Rein- | forccincnts which mobilises for training during the last week of September', which include the shortages for the Twentieth Reinforcements, were as follows at date of Friday, the hi September:— Total shortage for Auckland Military District . -, uo .Total shortage for Welling- '. ton Military District ... . i ;jb'-l Total shortage for Canter- < bury Military District .. . Jl.j Otago Military District— ' ' • ■ ■ Group No. , L'i (Dune- ■ v din) shortage .]fl Group No. ld(lnvercar- \ ■. ' gill) .'shortage ....-'■ 62 !. , , : Group No. la (Oamaru) shortage ■ >::t Group No. Iti (Milton) shortage 15 Total , shortage. for Otago . . . .■ Military District 157 '• ? Total Dominion shortage .. 7,%