MORE MEN TO GO INTO CAMP

Southland Times, Issue 23942, 7 October 1939, Page 6

MORE MEN TO GO INTO CAMP

154 Volunteers From Southland DRAFT OF 70 WILL LEAVE ON FRIDAY YESTERDAY’S ENLISTMENTS TOTAL 16 Advice that 154 more men from the Southland area, ..who have been accepted for the special military force for service within New Zealand, or overseas, are required to undergo training at camp was received at the Army Headquarters in Invercargill yesterday. A draft of 70 recruits will leave next Friday morning and the remainder of the. complement of 154 will probably depart on the Sunday. Recruiting in Invercargill for the special force continued fairly steadily yesterday and 16 men More recruits are still wanted, particularly for the artillery section and the Army Service Corps. There is a shortage of lorry drivers and men with the necessary ability for lorry driving are in demand. Of the 593 recruits who have now been examined in Southland, 374 have been passed as fit, 75. classed as. temporarily unfit and 141 rejected as unfit. The following are the men who enlisted yesterday:—

Fagan, Alan Keith, engineering surveyor, Balclutha. . . Grant, Norman James, miner, Nightcaps. , • Heads, Alfred Robert, farm labourer, Edendale. ! . Illingworth, Francis John, surfaceman, Dipton. «. ■ Molloy, David Albert, labourer, Makarewa. Moss, Frank Huia, fisherman, Bluff.' McDougall, Rugby, labourer, Gore. McLean, Donald William Charles, farm labourer, Otapiri, 1 . Nicholson, John, seaman, 32 Earnslaw street, Invercargill. X Richmond, Roy, teamster, Mandeville. Ryan, James Spencer, seaman, Bluff; Titchener, William James Mackintosh, farm labourer, 44 Dublin street, Invercargill. Thompson, Cyril Henry, saw miller, Tuatapere., " ■. Tunnicliffe, John Alexander, labourer, Winton, Wilkins, James Louis, labourer, Otatara. Ward, John Young, plumber, Section 1, Glencoe R.D.

Only three enrolments for the National Military Reserve were received at the Chief Post Office yesterday, bringing the total for Southland to 2197. Of these, 657 are veterans of the' Great War. MORE WAIKATO MEN GO INTO CAMP AREA QUOTA OF 345 NOW FULL (United Press Association) HAMILTON, October 6. Completing the No. 4 Area quota for the New Zealand special force, the last draft of 54 men entrained at Hamilton today for the Hopuhopu camp. Composed of members of the reserve motor transport company and headquarters divisional ammunition company, today’s contingent marched through Victoria street led by the Waikato Regimental and Hamilton Municipal Band and brought the No. 4 Area quota to 345 officers and men. Again a large crowd of friends, relations and wellwishers gathered at the Hamilton railway station to bid farewell to the men.

FARM LABOURERS AS RECRUITS INVESTIGATION PROMISED BY MINISTER (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, October 6. Surprise was expressed by the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) when Mr W. J. Polson (Nat., Stratford) asked him in :the House this afternoon if he was aware that many young men essential to primary’ industry were being taken into camp with the special military force, h. This type of young man was being called up in spite of th'e assurance given that men in essential industries would not be taken, Mr Polson said. The Minister said that instructions

had been given that men from essential; industries should not be accepted. It was possible that young men from the country had been giving their occupation as labourers.

Mr Polson: They Lave given their occupation as farm labourers, shepherds and so on.

If that were the. case, said the Minister. he was surprised to hear that they were being taken. Mr F. W. Doidge (Nat., Tauranga): They are taking them in large numbers. More than the number of men required had enlisted; the Minister added, and consequently there was no need to take essential men. He promised to have tiie matter investigated.