AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
MELBOURNE, October 15. ' Official figures • foi- compulsory enrolment show that 149,199 men reported, 56,518 claimed exemption, and 34,802 were declared unfit and 60,301 fit.. ■ — — — — — _ — V (Special to the Herald.) , ■ CHRISTCHURCH, this day. There is a- very big shortage m the Christchurch quota for the: TwentySecond Reinforcements, , the deficiency being no fewer than 129. This is the first rime' lor months that Christchurch has been unable to fulfil its requirements-!, and the shortage has never been so _erious. It is feared that the end of the district's resoui _es from a voluntary standpoint has been reached.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14124, 17 October 1916, Page 3
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