MEN FOR THE FRONT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16129, 18 January 1916, Page 6

MEN FOR THE FRONT.

DEPARTURE FOR CAMP. SIXTY-SIX RECRUITS LEAVE. SHORTAGE FOR "TWELFTHS." A body of 66 men left Auckland yesterday by the 12.40 p.m. train for Trentham. Forty of the men form details for the eleventh reinforcements, the Southern quotas of which went into camp short of the required numbers. Of the 47 men required to fill up Northern deficiencies for the twelfth reinforcements, only 26 assembled at the Drill Hall yesterday morning to leave for camp. Twenty-one infantry recruits are still wanted to make up tho shortage in the quota. THIRTEENTH REINFORCEMENTS. QUOTA TO BE ORGANISED. The Auckland recruiting officers have received instructions to organise the Northern quota of the thirteenth reinforcements. The number of men required is not yet available for publication.

ALLEGED " BOGUS " ENLISTMENTS. STATEMENT BY COLONEL HUME. It lias been suggested. a s staled in a telegram from our Wellington correspondent published yesterday, that men who are now registering for the Field Ambulance and the Army Service Corps in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces are doing so with a view to escaping active service. It is pointed out that sufficient men have already enlisted for these, units to supply requirements for at least 18 months. The matter was referred yesterday to Colonel J. E. Hume, officer commanding the Auckland military district. Colonel Hume said that the position in Auckland was not as acute as it was in the other centres. There was a number of men on the waiting list of these two branches, including 50 for the Army Service Corps, and it was difficult to say how soon they would be called tip. There was need fur more recruits to fill up shortages in the twelfth reinforcements, and the call would soon he made for several hundred men to make up the Northern quota of the thirteenth reinforcements. The replies to the Departmental circular inviting the men to transfer from the Army Service Corps to the mounted and Infantry services were in many cases unsatisfactory, and indicated that the men to whom the circulars were addressed were not as keen to go on active service as might be supposed. It is stated that in future, unless it is shown that men offering fur the Ambulance Corps are unfit for other services, they will not he accepted.

PRESSURE ON MARRIED MEN. NOT YET NECESSARY. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS association] CimiSTdntrßriT, Monday. Referring to recruiting, Mr. Massey tonight said there was no necessity at present to bring pressure on married'men, but the present system would be continued as long as the war lasted.