DOMINION RECRUITING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16285, 19 July 1916, Page 8

DOMINION RECRUITING.

NINETEENTH REINFORCEMENT

A TOTAL SURPLUS OF 53.

AUCKLAND EIGHT MEN SHORT.

The Prime Minister, in his capacity as chairman of the Recruiting Board, has issued the folowing statement: The nineteenth reinforcement, which mobilises for training next week, is now complete. As a matter of fart there has been an excess of registrations in some groups, with the result that the draft for the whole Dominion will go into camp over strength. The official figures of the registrations for the infantry* all other arms of the service being full, as at date of Friday, July 14, are as follows:— Group Auckland City ... Complete Group —Pa*roa Group —Hamilton Shorti- b titi. aße Surplus. Group B—Whangarei 8 _ Shortage Auckland District, 8. Shortr- - _ ... , ,-. age. Surplus. Group o—Wellington City ... — 26 Group 6—Palmerptoa North... — 34 Group 7—Xaiiipr ... ... 28 _. Group "a—Masterton ... ... — »j Group S—Hawora ... ... 15 Surplus Wellington District. 6?. Short- /- „,-..,, . a S«. Surplus. Group 9—Cnnstcburch City — 7 Group 10—Timaru ... ... 4 Group 11Kaiapoi ... ... ■> _ Group 11a—Greymouth ... 21 Group Nelson ... 03 Surplus Canterbury District. 11. Group 16—Milton Complete Short- /-• , n -r» »• „ Bse. Surplus. Group Dunedin C.ty 17 __ Group 14Invercargill ... 1 Group 15Oamaru ... ... 1 Shortage Otago District. 19. The total Dominion surplus is 53.

CRITICAL STAGE REACHED. URGENT NEED FOR RECRUIT?. Registrations for the twentieth reinforcement are now well in hand in most of the groups. The board wishes to impress on recruiting committees the urgent necessity of keeping up the flow of recruits, as it will be some time yet before the preparations for bringing the Military Service Act into operation will be completed. This work is now in progress, but in the meantime, and until the compulsory provisions of the Act can be enforced, it is essential that there should be no slackening off in enlistments. "We have now reached the stage in the great struggle when it is more than ever necessary to maintain our force in the field at full strength.