EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24205, 25 January 1940, Page 10

EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

THE SECOND ECHELON LOCAL RECRUITING STEADY FLOW OF APPLICANTS Enlistments in Dunedin for the second echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force continue to come in steadily. The following is the latest list of recruits:— Group 2 (Single men) Ewan George Densem, Deborah Bay, Port Chalmers (coastal defence). Harold James Ayres, 433 George street, Dunedin. Robert lan Johnston, 143 Main road. North-East Valley. Bramwell Alfred Dobson, 9 Bathgate road, Dunedin (coastal defence). Albert Edward Lewis, 316 King street, Dunedin. . Cecil Alexander Craig, 39 Grove street, St. Kilda. Group 4 (Married men with children) Frank Gibson Wood, 9 Agnes street. Dunedin. „« ,„ •« j Norman Edward Warne, 29 Maitland street, Dunedin. , nA Charles Martel De Bazin, 24 Lees street, Dunedin.

OAMARU \ Group 1 (Officers). Second-lieutenant George Oliver Wilkes, 313 Thomas street, Oamaru. MAYOR OF NEW LYNN ENLISTS (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Jan. 24. The Mayor of New Lynn (Mr A. T. Reiman) has enlisted for overseas service. ■ He was an' officer in the City Council's traffic department for 10 years, and was granted permission to contest the mayoralty last election. He is president of the Local Authority Officers' Union, and was in the Territorials for several years as quarter-master-sergeant of the machine gun section. He is 39 years of age. married, with .two children. BURNHAM CAMP NEW COMMANDANT TAKES \JP DUTIES "his transfer, to Wellington as General Staff Officer for the Central Military District, the Camp Commandant at Burnham (Major H. M. Foster, N.Z.S.C.) paid a warm tribute to the work of his staff in camp. Major Foster referred also to the co-opera-tion of all ranks at Burnham which contributed greatly to the smooth running of the camp. • Lieutenant-colonel S. D. Mason, N.Z.T.S.. has now taken over the duties of Camp Commandant following the departure of Major Foster for , the north on Tuesday evening.

RESERVED OCCUPATIONS STATEMENT BY MINISTER NO COMPLETE BAN ON ANY TRADE "No authority exists for complete reservation of any occupation," states the Minister of Labour (Mr P. C. Webb) in a telegram to the Christchurch Press in reply to an inquiry made by a correspondent about the enlistment of slaughtermen. "Where enlistments occur from men engaged in what are accepted as vital or kev occupations, investigations are immediately instituted to ascertain whether production or essential services would be endangered. In those special circumstances military service is nostponed till substitutes can be found or trained. "Consequently, if competent substitutes tie available, the acceptance or volunteers in such industries would not be postponed by reason of their occupation." The correspondent's letter complained that the authorities, while annealing urgently for enlistments, were preventing so-called reserved-occupa-tion men. such as slaughtermen, farm hands, etc.. from enlisting. He instanced his own case as a married man and a good slaughterman, who is unable to take ud his occupation as the works have waiting lists of men. Yet. he said, there were single men working there who could not enlist, as thev were told they could not be done without. As a result, he was forced to accent unsuitable work, and at a muc.b smaller wage. This, he said, was bv no means an isolated case.