THE WAR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16982, 19 April 1917, Page 6

THE WAR.

BELGIAN RELIEF FUND THEOTAGO DAILY TIMTCS LTST. Previously acknowledged £28,454 15 10 "T. B." 20 0 0 Total £28,474 IS 10 VOLUNTARY, ENLISTMENTS. Thirteen men presented themselves !to the doctors at Kensington on 'luysday night. Four were deciarua unfit, three cases werb deferred and the following were passed as fit:—James Alexander M'Mullen, carter, Green Island. Arthur Howard Nicholls, electrician, Dunedin. John Wilson, engineer, Wyndham. Henry Arnold Wynn, ploughman, Green Island. William Elliott, student, Dunedin. John Thomas Nimmo, farmer, MosgieL MEN WANTED FOE SAMOA. Major Mollcr is authorised to enlist a number ol men for service in Samoa. They must bo between 45 and 48 years of age Tnoy are to leavo Dunedin in 14 days. l'nirty men are- also wanted lor the military police force at 'irentham, and 50 others ol all trades. ANOMALIES OF THE BALLOT Thomas Early, who was drawn in the latest ballot, is at present in camp having enlisted voluntarily with the Twenty-seventh Reinforcements. . • It. J. L. Uownes, civil servant. Mos°-iel wnose name appears in the Lst of balloted men was classed as unfit at the bc<*innin°' ot the war. Four of his brothers are onactive service, and one has been killed. Charles Kidd is a member of the Twentythird Reinforcements, and Forbes Kidd is in camp with the Twenty-seventh .Renforccments. We are informed that Alexander M'Bain whose name appeared in the list yesterday of men called up by ballot under the Military Service Act, enlisted in the early days of the war, and was in camp with the Main Body, but was then rejected for active service. He served as a. volunteer in the -Boer war. lieutenant Alexander Strachan Hart drawn m the last ballot, volunteered for active service on his twentieth birthday and has been recommended to ,go forward with a reinforcement draft in May