THE EMPIRES CALL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 410, 3 June 1915, Page 11

THE EMPIRES CALL.

j RECRUITING CAMPAIGN. DEFENCE CORPS BUREAU. Notwithstanding that to-day is a holiday, the G.D.C. recruiting bureau remained open all day, and good business was done. To date the bureau has enrolled 701 recruits. KAIAPOI ENLISTMENTS. In addition to the lists previously Sublisbed, the following enlistments ave been received at Kaiapoi :-?- Arthur M. Gossett, Trafalgar Street, St. Albans. Alfred Frederick Stigants,- 29 Essex Street, Linwood. Alan Stevens, Springston. John Wesley, Waikuku. Ernest Rositer Smith, Amberley. Percy Leonard Rouse, Woodend. Thomas Kimber, Springston. Richard William Flutey, Waikuku. Thomas R. G. Elford, Ellesmere. Thomas Arnold Moody, Woodcnd. William H. Watkins, West Belt, Rangiora. Robert Chapman, Springston. Edward Powelka, Oxford. Michael Toolan, Loburn. William Ernest Page, 86 Bristol Street, St. Albans. Ralph Freeman Burnett, Woodend. John Lynch, Brookside. Harold Alfred Baynes, Ohoka. Arthur Thomas Wilson, Woodend. R.. W. Leslie Wilson, Belfast. Arthur L. Cooper, Springston. William F. R. Manhire, Hornby. William Page, Bennetts. William Banks, Waikuku. Alexander Stanley Baker, Wandalholm, Waiau. James Harrington, Ladbrooks, Joseph Charles Musdin, Camside, Ernest A. Lowe, Rolleston. William Stafford Shannon, Rakaia. Leonard A. Goldien, Hanmer. F. J. A. Fraser, Culyerdeh. Robert Ellmers, Woodend. i James Desmot, Woodend. | James Tyler, Darfield. | Abram Ashworth, Harleston, Sef-j ton. James •Carrick, Waikuku. Alan McLachlan, Dbyleston. Clarence Richard Thomas, Rarigi- . ora. ■- . ... -. •? .. ! Samuel Wilson, Belfast. Samuel Breading, Te Piaita. Wm. Ernest Hodgson, Te Piaita. Cornelius Groves Reveley, Tipapa, Motunau. Joseph Linton, West Eyreton, Frank Wilkinson, Spottiswood. Clement Wreford-Reid, Flaxton. John Ravenscroftj Mount Torlesse, Springfield. ■-.-' Frank Ernest Moore, Church Street, Rangiora. George Friezell,, Hanmer. John Beswick, Kirwee. Ronald George Keith, Hororata. Charles E. Brown, Oxford. Edward Jas. Richards. Rangiora. William John Woods, Rangiora. Leonard Talbot Russell, Brookside. Robert Stagdale Atkinson, Stdneyhurst. Arthur Felix Eley, Burnham,. Fino Senofoate, Lakeside, Ellesmere. ■■■.".■■.■■ Wm. Francis Donald, Brookside. Donald Colborne Robinson, Parnassus. Charles Entwistle, Fernside. George Henry Thomas, Ohoka. Thomas Kearns, Ohoka. Arnold E. Hays, 123 Wilson's Road Patrick Gallagher, Peraki Street, Kaiapoi. Joseph Buchanan Atkinson, Lyndon, Waiau. Walter Lander, Waiau. Ernest J. Fowke, Waiau. Robert" Wm. Borland, Waikari. Thomas Willis Burgess, Redcliffs. Clifford F. Johnston, Colombo -- Street, Christchurch. Alexander Ralph Lecke, Christchurch. ' William Pyle, Christchurch. j Walter Leonard Pengelly, Christchurch. Edwin Stephen Johnston Bourne, Culverden. Daniel Booth Frill, Scargil). Peter Flaherty, Cheviot. Francis Henry Perkin, Leeston. ; Francis Redmond, Leeston. Robert Wm. Thompson, Kaiapoi. John Neale, Belfast. James Williams, Belfast. Robert Tfaos. Retailick, Amberley. James Colin Blackley, Cheviot. Donald Irving Llewellyn, Russell's Flat. Con Daley, Waddington. Frederick Wm. Downsher, Killinchy. ! William McHarg, Belfast. ! Jack Knowles, Hanmer. ! Geo. Albert, Nelson, West Oxford. . ; Charles Woblford, Kaiapoi. , ,- j Geo. Harry Coop, Kaiapoi. , ! Thonias Lewis, Loburn., ~ Herbert Crampton, Cheviot. < i .Albert Wjtte,. j ; John Augustus Xotthagen, Gulverlden. J Alfred Warren, Coutt's Island Kaiapoi. Geo. Archibald McPhail, Aylesbury. John Allen, Killinehy. William Robert Simpson, Southbridge. AH the men in the list are for the infantry, as no recruiting is going on at present in North Canterbury for any other unit RECRUITING STATISTICS. The following are the recruiting returns for the Canterbury Military District for the 7th and subsequent Reinforcements to date. Area Inffuv Other • . Oroup. Ildqtrs. M.R. try. units. Tl.'" No. & Christchurch 100 202 138 440 No. 10 Tiuiarji 86 145 48 279 No. 11 . Kninpoi 4,1 L 9.4 . 21 I'sjG No. 1 lit Greymouth 1 58 1 55 No. 12' Nelson 19 81 47 147 Totals .. 247 -575 255 1077 7th REINFORCEMENTS. The North Canterbury quota for the 7th Reinforcements will leave for Trentham on June 12, and the j Christchurch men on June 14. A total of oO infantry and 15 mounted men will go from North Canterbury. ■ i...'.. i