OTAGO RECRUITS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24347, 11 July 1940, Page 8

OTAGO RECRUITS

-YESTERDAY'S ENLISTMENTS TOTAL OF TWENTY-FOUR NAMES OAMARU'S GOOD RESPONSE Twenty-four enlistments for service in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force were received at -the local Arhiv. Office yesterday. Of these, no fewer "than 11 were from Oamaru. The'names'of six men, including one from Oamaru, were not available for publication. '>'..' ;.'.."'. :• ■-;■■■> The following are the names available:—- .' '-• . •' -*:■•■ ; >.-: ,-' : ';■ "'-.' ■ -.Group 2 ■■;/ : ' : (Single men) James, Leslie Edward Collins. Ernest'Thomas Hope. . ; Norris Frederick Orchard. • Douglas Gordon Scott. . John George Pellowe. John. William Emmerson. Herbert Henry Marquis Campbell. < William, Alexander Clarence Behrens. :■ .;>:.,.*>V ."' Oamaru •: -Stewart Henry Anderson. .Alexander William Grenfell Maurice. • 'James Henry Ingram. •'' Lawrence Terence Lynch. ' Ronald Percy Sberwin.. John Allenby Little. lan William Brown. -Ronald Stevenson. Group 4 ..(Married men with children)' ' '-:■. 'William'Stuart (Oamaru). • George Leslie Gordon Aitchison (Oamaru). ' MEDICAL BOARDS COUNTRY RECRUITS AND TER-. RITORIALS Next, week a commencement will probably be made, with the medical, examination, of Otago territorials/;' It is expected that 180 men of the Otago Regiment will be examined by medical boards'"oh.l July 18, :and- that those who pass as fit will be/X-ray'ed the following evening. .-" .„ , \ Several medical Taoards.' will -alsorbe held in country .centres, next- week They have been'.set ..down . as follows: .. ■ _ ' „• ■ : •-. Ranfurry.-r-July-19, at 2.30 p.m. Alexandra: —July 20, at 9 a.m. :,Cromwell:\July .20,, at 10.30, a.m, DISTRICT | HEADQUARTERS ■ CHRISTGHURCH SOLICITOR'S APPOINTMENT ,-. ~ Lieutenant J, D. Hutchison, of Christchurch, has been posted to. the New Zealand temporary staff- with the rank of captain. He has been • appointed D.A.A.G.,. Southern Military District headquarters, and took up his duties vGstcrdsv, As a member of the firm of Dougall, Son and Hutchison. Captain Hutchison is a well-known Christchurch solicitor. He was in the Main Body during the last war, and saw service in Egypt and at Gallipoli as a gunner and n.c.o. in the artillery. Later he fought on the Western Front, where he reached commissioned rank. For some years he was on the Reserve of Officers, but since the beginning of this year he has been serving actively in the territorial artillery. '. -.- TERRITORIAL SERVICE END OF VOLUNTARY SYSTEM ON JULY 22 There will be no voluntary enrolments in the New Zealand territorial forces after July 22, the day when recruiting for the Expeditionary Force overseas ceases, to be replaced by conscription. A ruling to this effect covering the territorials has been received at Southern District Military Headquarters from Army Headquarters in Wel-l lington, and: it is applicable to all units of the territorials /-••! ■- -J PARCELS FOR FIRST ECHELON DIVERSION TO ENGLAND : REPLACEMENT ARRANGEMENTS (Per United Pbess Association) WELLINGTON, July 10. Inquiries have been made whether parcels made up under the National Patriotic Fund Board's scheme for the First Echelon in Egypt have arrived there. The secretary of the board, Mr G. A. Hayden. slid to-day that as the shippins arrangements were altered after the despatch of the parcels because of the international situation they had not reached Egypt but had gone to England. Arrangements were being made for the distribution of these parcels among the Second Echelon in England and for a fresh supply to be sent to Egypt for the First Echelon. Mr Hayden added that a further sum had been cabled to Egypt for the. purchase of comforts for the New Zealand troops there. The last advice he had received was that funds were not lacking for this purpose.