RECRUITING AT SLOWER PACE

Southland Times, Issue 23922, 14 September 1939, Page 4

RECRUITING AT SLOWER PACE

Fewer Enlistments Yesterday

MANY POSTAL FORMS EXPECTED TODAY

MORE SINGLE MEN NEEDED IN SOUTHLAND Recruiting for a special military force for service within New Zealand or overseas was continued at Invercargill at a slower rate yesterday and it was estimated that when the enrolment office closed at 9 o’clock last night 319 men between the ages of 21 and 35 years had enlisted in the No. 12 defence area during the two days The number of men enlisting was very small, there being only occasional arrivals at the Drill Hall, but a bigger number took advantage of the extended hours and there was a fairly steady stream of recruits in the evening. The first postal forms from the country districts were received yesterday and as a big number of forms have been posted out . in response to requests it is expected that there will be a good batch in today’s mail.

It was emphasized by the recruiting officers last night that the Southland quota was not yet full and there was still room for many more recruits. It was hoped to fill the quota without married men and many more single men could still be accepted. Recruiting officers had been advised to be prepared for up to 40 per cent, of rejections for medical and other reasons, but it was not expected that such a high percentage of the Southland recruits would be rejected. They were mostly of a very good type and appeared to be in excellent health. The medical examination of the recruits will begin at Invercargill today. Boards will sit during the morning, afternoon and evening and it is expected that at least 150 recruits will pass before the doctors during the day-. Country recruits will probably be assembled for examination at the beginning of next week. NAMES OF RECRUITS The names of recruits who enlisted at the Drill Hall yesterday and those who enlisted at country centres on Tuesday are given below Where no address is given, the recruits are residents of Invercargill. William James Aitken (Bluff), Frederick Francis Archer (Balclutha), Robert Norman Agnew (Gore). William George Burgess (Pebbly Hills), John William Kitchener Braxton, Thomas Patrick Boyle (Milton), Maurice Brumby (Winton), Stanley Alan Bishop, Clarence Albert Barnett (Benhar), George Nelson Barltrop, Rupert John William Blick, John Henry Brown.

Cyril Bythesea Crosland (Pebbly Hills), John Irving Clayton (Milton), Thomas Shepherd Clarke (Mataura), John Walker Chirnside (Clydevale), Ernest Robert Clarke, John Miller Cuthbertson (Balclutha), Andrew Gordon Campbell (Gore), William Sharp Campbell; David Beath Cameron, Stanley Thomas Cooke. Peter Douglas Donald (Maitland), Daniel George Davis, Terence Edmund Davidson.

Eroest Emerson (Hedgehope). John Henry Fisher, Alick Douglas Fraser, Robert Gilchrist Forsyth. Stanley Ralph Goodrich (Pebbly Hills), James Bridgeman Gray (Milton), Stanley John Green, Wesley Horace Grocott, Upton Sinclair Giles, John Gray, Robert Albert Gray. Thomas Edwin Hardwick (Gorge Road), Frederick George Holland (Gore), Kenneth Charles Howard (Gore), Llewyllyn Hickey (Bluff), Arthur Edward Heads (Milton), Alexander James Hall (Balclutha), Frank Henry Hutson, Mervyn James John Hinsley. William Brown Jenkins (Mataura), Thomas Anderson Jellyman, Thomas Fredrick Jefcoate.

John Richard Kidd, Robert John Kelland.

Gunn Leckie (Te Tipua), Richard Lumsden (Edendale), John Ronald Lynch. William Arthur McCrystall (Pebbly Hills), John Norrie Mills (Milton), Nigel Alexander Allan (Gore), Arthur Robert Molloy (Bluff), Myles Gibbons Matheson (Otautau), Donald Thomas McLean (Mataura), John Walter McLean (Mataura), Logan William Pullar McDowell (Gore), John James McGill (Gore), Hugh McSkimming (Benhar), William Alexander Murdoch (Stirling), Francis Robert Mcßride (Gore), Ronald Percy McKnight, Walter Mitchell. Edward Studley Pay (Gore), Robert James Pope, Robert Charles Preston (Bluff), Charles William Joshua Pierson, Thomas Page, Verdun Donald Phillips. John Phillip Quilter (Mataura), Thomas George Quilter.

Francis Thomas Ramage (Mataura), Duncan James Ross (Mataura), Percival Robert Richardson (Stirling), Robert Woodrow, John William Robertson. Hiram Anthony Smith (Pebbly Hills), Errol Bayne Smith (Pebbly Hills), Jack Leslie Spicer (Auckland), William Nichol Mclntyre Smith (Waikaka Valley), Ivan Lindsay Stott, Stanley Shirley (Balclutha), Robert Sharp (Gore), Allan Henry Stuck, Colin Scandrett, Maurice Gatley Stroud (Gore), Clifford Vernon Shirley, Cecil Ralph Scott, Alfred William Crighton Slipper, Henry Thomas Smith, Leslie Spencer Scurr, Alexander Royle Sherlock. Charles lan Albert Thomson (Milton), Horace Stanley Taylor, Albert William James Thompson. William Gordon Wilson (Wyndham), Arthur Edward Wells (Milton), Owen Arthur Wyher (Balclutha), Nelson Thomas Wills