PROPOSED AUXILIARY CAMP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 9

PROPOSED AUXILIARY CAMP.

NOT FAVOURED BY MINISTER

[BY telegraph.— ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Friday. Suggestions have been made in various quarters for the establishment of auxiliary recruiting camps in various parts of the country, to which men could be sent as soon as they enlisted, instead of having to wait until called upon to go to Trimtham. The Minister for Defence to-day made some remarks upon the matter: — "We have adopted a Bystcm of registration," he said, "and it has been working admirably. The registration system means that the men who register their names are ready to give their services whenever they are called upon. They are advised, when signing their registration cards, not to leave their employment meantime, and that they will get due notice when to go uu for medical examination and when to go into camp. Any agitation that is calculated to upset this arrangement is against recruiting. The industries of the country 'should be carried on without any interference, so long as tho Department can assist this end, and to call men away from employment before they are needed would only reduce the productive capacity of the country. Further, we have made arrangements for training men in camp, and have provided a staff for the purpose, and it would not only be inconvenient but impolitic if we were to establish any other thin the camp at Trentham."