SEVENTEENTH REINFORCEMENTS.
MEN COMING FORWARD IN OTAGO. The District Headquarters report that the quota from the Otago district for tho Seventeenth Reinforcement is likely to bo secured. About 340 men are required, and already 225 have signed on. The Dunedin group, at all events, is practically certain to be quite full. This is a very satisfactory state of things, considering that a large draft left tho district only on Thursday. Of the total number of men available in the district 43 are prospective non-com-missioned officers.
The following table shows the number of non-commissioned officers and men available in the Otago district for the Seventeenth and future reinforcements: —
• s « i - . ■"O CJ b c 00 District. § S | J 3 3 3 1:5 2 "8 Q m O EH Mounted Rifles ... 29. 16 52 15 112 Artillery 28 13 8 — 49 Engineers 6 4 8 1 19 Signal Service ... 9 — 1 — 10
Infantry 197 80 113 58 448 A.SC 4 6 5 * 5 20 Ambulance ... 6 5 6 — 17 Veterinary 4 — 2 1 7 Hospital ship ... — 22 — —2 Tunnellers 2 — 1 — 3 Samoan Force ... — — 22 —2 Totals 285 126 198 80 689 LIEUTENANT GRIERSON. REMOVAL FROM ARMY URGED. APPEAL TO MK ALLEN. (Peh United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 5. _ "Representatives of the Women's AntiGerman League waited on the Minister of Defence to-day, and urged that Lieutenant Grierson should not be allowed to go with the Twelfth Reinforcements. Mr Allen replied that if ho complied with the request he would bo doing an injustice to Lieut. Grierson. Ho was not prepared to do an injuetico to tho man. The league has now decided to send a petition to tho King, through tho Governor, asking him to remove Lieut. Grierson from tho army.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16687, 6 May 1916, Page 7
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289SEVENTEENTH REINFORCEMENTS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 16687, 6 May 1916, Page 7
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