AUCKLAND RECRUITING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16335, 15 September 1916, Page 6

AUCKLAND RECRUITING

TWENTY-TWO VOLUNTEER.

FIFTEEN PASS THE DOCTOR.

DEFERRED MEN BECOME FIT.

Iwentmwo men enrolled at the city recruiting station yesterday, and of that number 15 were accepted, three were deferred, and four were rejected as unfit for active service. Eight recruits who were deferred at previous examinations satisfied the doctor and dentist, and were accepted yesterday. The names, occupations, and addresses of those accepted and the areas in which they reside are :— NO. 1, CITT, GROW. M. T. Carruthers, storeman, Edon Terrace. E. J. Cunningham, cabinetmaker, Epsom. J. Curtis, engine-driver, Ponsonby. S. W. Hare, storeman, Upper tjuoon St. P. M. Hartnett, bushman, Thames Hotel. T S. Hoare, blacksmith, Parnell. F. R. Kent, student, Epsom. T. A. Lynch, seaman, Franklin Road. H. McCoskrie, engineer, Ponsonby. H. J. Patterson, blacksmith, Victoria Hotel H. T. Randal, traveller, Mount Eden. E. F. Scarll, carpenter, Great North Road M. Williams, bushman, Thames Hotel. Deferred, now fit: — B. C. S. Brabant, clerk, Bank of N.S.W. \V. F. Bannister, timber-worker, Newton. H. E. Bennett, Public Works cadet, Symonds Street. F. Brooks, mechanic, Avondale. E. P. Kelly, bricklayer, Archhill. N. A. Marro, warehouseman, Ponsonby. W. J. Tracey, driver, Devonport, E. Wild, baker, Grey Lynn. NO. 3, WHANGAREI, GlOUr. J. P. Morris, piiner, SilverJale. no, 4, Hamilton, grout. A. G. F. Smith, farmor, Tamaki, TWENTY-FIFTH draft. » AUCKLAND OFFICERS. APPOINTMENT ON PROBATION, The following Auckland officers have been appointed on probation to the infantry of the twenty-fifth reinforcements, and are due to concentrate at Trentham on October 17 :-Lieutenant-Cclonol W. H. C. Walker, 4th, Waikato, Mounted Rifles; Captain- T. Paterson, 4th, Waikato, Mounted Rifles ; Lieut. H. S. Atkinson, late 3rd, Auckland, Regiment; Lieut. W.'J. Cos, 3rd, Auckland, Regiment; SecondLieutenant G. Wallace, unattached lint (b), Grey Lynn. Lieutenant-Colonel Walker has 18 years service as an officer to his credit. He was originally captain of the Auckland Engineering Corps, and was for 12 years with the Waikato Mounted Rifles; the last seven years as senior major. In civil life he is master of the Newmarket public school. Captain Paterson is a farmer residing near Ngaruawahia, and Lieutenant Atkinson is also farming, near Te Awamutu. I The latter had three years' service with the Auckland College Rifles, and was for one year and 134 days on active .'i<;'> with the Fourth New Zealand Contingent in South Africa. Lieutenant Cox is district musketry instructor, and Lieutenant Wallace a storekeeper residing at Grey ; Lynn.

THE MEN IN TRAINING. TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS. The following temporary appointments of N.CO.'s have been approved by the commandant of Trenlham camp, Lieuten-ant-Colonel H. R. Potter.— Headquarters' Staff.—Camp band : To be corporal, Private M. McMahon. Camp military police : To bo corporals, LanceCorporal F. J. Blake, W. Raymond. The following temporary appointmenta of N.CO.'s hav e been approved by the commandant of Featherston camp, Lieu-tenant-Colonel N. P. Adams :— Twentieth Reinforcements.— Company : To be lance-corporals, Privatos J. McCullough, J. Sarginson, W. T. Clarke, 0. L. Gerken, W. H. Walders, J. McDonald. •' Twenty-first reinforcements.—-Specialist Company (signal section) : To be sergeant, Corporal H. 0. Wilson; to be corporal, Private A. S. Thorburn. New Zealand Dental Corps.— be sergeant mechanic, Private S. M. Hovell. Headquarters' Staff.—Camp commandant's office : To bo orderly room clerk, Private R. Latimer. MIMIC WARFARE, OPERATIONS AT TRENTHAM. Eight companies of the seventeenth reinforcements, stationed at Trentham camp, carried out combined operations on Tuesday, under the direction of Colonel C. R. Mac Donald, chief infantry instructor. The eight companies were split into two sides, one representing a brown force and the other a white force.

The general idea of the operations was that an eastern force (brown) was at war with a western force (white), and that the line of communication of the eastern force ran from Kaitoke to Lower Hutt. The special idea for tho brown force was that a battalion of the brown was railing from Kaitoke to Lower Hutt; but, learning that the bridge at Silverstream had been damaged, they detrained at Upper Hutt and went into billets there for the night. They also made dispositions to protect themselves from attack from any direction, having received information that hostile infantry* detachments were in the vicinity. One detachment of the whit* force was on the Akatarawa Road, and the 'special idea for them was that having learnt that a detachment of the brown forco was billeted at Upper Hutt, they should proceed thither from their point of assembly on the Akatarawa Road, sending out a patrol to gain information as to tho enemy's movements and then attack the eastern side .of Upper Hutt, endeavouring to turn the enemy's left flank. At the same time another detachment of tho white force, which was in the direction of Trentham camp, attacked Upper Hutt from the south-western side.

The main attack was that delivered on tho eastern side, and the brown force being inferior in numerical strength, the final decision was that ft would have been driven in.

The operations were greatly favoured by the weather, which was clear and bright, with a cool breeze to temper the heat of the sun, and the men followed all the movements and combinations with tho keenest interest.