RECRUITING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 561, 26 November 1915, Page 11

RECRUITING.

MEETING AT LEESTON. , ADDRESSES BY DR McNAB AND f MR ISITT. ' Considering, the brief notice given '•! to the people of; Leeston, the recruit- i ? ing meeting held in the township last ; evening by the 1 HonvDr> Ri MeNab; ?M.P., and MrL;,M. Isitt, Maunder Lthe auspices of the North Cantcr- '! bury Recruiting Board, was an unqualified success. With the usual itendency of country audiences, to • : take their time, the Leeston residents mustered only about 70 when ' the meeting commenced,[but -before ; Mr Isitt, who was the first of. the ; principal speakers, had been speak- ' ing for a quarter of an hour, the hall ; was comfortably filled. ; An earnest .'. attention and manifest enthusiasm ;on the part of'the audience indicated j that the Leeston people are not lackin patriotic fervour. Mr Isitt's address necessarily, fol> ;lowed similar lines to those which he adopted at Rakaia. He dwelt upon : the seriousness of the military position, which, "\yhile it save rio cause j -for pessimism, did call for individual 'sacrifice arid personal, effort. He • pointed out that if Britain ha,d mud;dled through in previous conflicts ::"that might well have been, because -i'she was opobsed to greater muddlers "sihan herself! But her "forces were -dealing now with a nation which j jhad'reduced war to a fine art, and! military or.£?amsfvtion toj ;|swch a pitches, the .world had never; .'known before. With Germany, oc-j : Mcupving Belgium, rooted in French J and ; menacing;;the very;: £'heart of Russia, 'we could not "dismiss] fithe position bv saving that; we. sbfll-| Fmuddle through. We were in for the j I struggle of -our-;livesi—ind'oed; for a ■(struggle for our lives—and he called every able-bodied single man in Leeston to plav the-game and at all' ; risks and sacrifices volunteer ttf the | country's service. He urged parents ■ ; to encourage their boys to go. From j i personal experience he knewjhow \ great a wrench it entailed.'jHe'had i only/two b'py.s.■': Dne was at;tl|e : front j an 6 ;th e otheri Was goins.\ "While 'i the|re Svas hardly any sacrifice'which |f he would': not"fnake i;o sHVe them, f' f rorn the perii;£tp which'ihoy- werei t necessarily :; exp"ojs,e'd,-'h'e':word-H''rjather j }■ that they,-dfe'dli'n the defbnce pf their j country to he pointed ; to as ■ I cowards and Shirkers in the time of { the country's need. After dealing! % with j several other aspects of the j : war, Mr Isitt closed with an earnest j j appeal to me,n to take" the decisive | step. ''-■ ""'' v V. Dr McNab spoke almost entirely upon the lines of* his previous v speeches. Yte remarked, however, !'- that before leaving the North Island J he had been nfng li one dav, «sk%d f; him if hewertfWrlWWT^fifeTbiify |to conduct c mmw f; When he said that he was, the lady | asked him, to g/> § was need for' his mere;' ' % At the close of the s ,meeting, fye ;] chalrmtuv- Isr 1 ro#^the :: Countyil .Council, remarked that .it. # .was, re- | freshing to finVi.two poliHciahs 'forI; getting : all Tnin.qr ; sss -'intlie wider interests i -i Irrespective of party, felt vthat the Leestori Q pe%ple (of the two memhe^stio^Plirli^merit thev had listened to that night. The,audience rose; sang fFdpr they 4 are Jolly Good Allows;" andvcheertfed*Dr McNab and Mr Isitt. It was "the expressed opinion of many of the older men present that the meet7ing had done good work and that as ! a result many young fellows would volunteer. TO-NIGHT'S MEETING. i To-night in (iathedral Square the .[Hon. Dr McNab, Mr J. J. Dougall,; I ■jin the interest of recruiting,; from | the balcony of the United Service }i Hotel, commencing at 8 p.im ~ •! 'THE-LATEST, ENLISTMENTS.-- ' ■-} • Rjecruiting■ was ,slack:. in.Christjchurch to-day. Up to 2.30 .p\m. ! only jisix men had registered at the C.D.C, ;!bureau, and two. at the• n r ea /recrm 1-. ■\mg office.; 5 The ; Christchurch area ■jquota is "short, so far, of 13 mounted imen and pB.. infantrymen for the Reinforcements. All the -jother branches of the quota are full. The following are the names of men. who have l enlisted since The werif'to press -yesterday:—; Aveiiue, 5 Force. 'E.,.J". McDohal.d, j56 ; Fisher ; Street, BeckenJiam, ■': ' •■,,.,..., Alfred John Morcorn, : Akarba, Mounted. • ] Benjamin Goudle McLachlan, 429 Colombo \ Sfr'eet, Christchurch, salesman—lnfantry. 1 Ernest Ck)bourg Tipping, 5 Naseby Street, Merivale, farmer —Mounted. Harold Roy Matthews, 544 Cashel Street, a -Lin wood, commercial travel Icr—Ambulance. 1 .Lorrimer Smitli, 205 Selwyn Spreytdon,: farm hand—Mounted. Ernest John Braid, 74 Antigua Street, Christchurch, tailor—Mounted. William Steans, 20 Hereford Street; Christchurch—lnfantry. David Edward Le Fevre, 23 Western Road, •j St. Albans, Force. & -Jorgen Christenson, - 288 Cashel Street, airistchurch, farmer—Samoan Force. TO-DAY'S liIST. James Lawrence Pegbie, care ] G.P.0.,; Christchurch, jpekey— Mounted. : I ISorman Harper,, 24 Radley Street,•; Woolvslbn, biitcher-!—lnfaiitry. ;j- ' |j i William Tryon,; W6olstbn, , butcher—lnfantry.' . Patrick Ryan, Hawarden, labourer— Samoan Force. George FitzClarcnce St. George, 380 Durham Street, Christchurch, clerk—lnfantry. James Beverley, "The Grange," River - Road, Avonside, blacksmith-;—lnfantry. Fred John Crocker, 103 High Street, Christchurch, salesman —Samoan! Force. v - r Another, ;\vho does riot \fish his name -to be published. Douglas Scott has attended his .medical examination. ■ i ■■:.■•: •■ -< : ■ i NORTH CANTERBURY AREA., have- registered for enrolment lat the Kaiapoi area re-

, cruiting office since November 1.7, and have presented themselves for \ medical examination. Eleven have -been passed as fit* nine have been' classed as temporarily unfit, and J three have been rejected as unfit. . Their names are:— Wallace Lamont McLachlan, Doyleston—- » Mounted. , Frederick John Pester, Culverden—lh- ' fantryi David John Wilson Doak, Omihi—lnfajatry. r .Tbscph Chambers Thompson, Kaiapoi— Infantry. ....... Joseph Francis, Kaiapoi—lnfantry. ',,. Thomas •Leonard Rayrilond Beats, Snowdoi?—ln- .- fantry.' - - ! ■ ;:: John Marsh, .Balmoral-rrArtillery. John Forbes, Bennetts, Mounted. Edwin Henderson Robertson, Whakama- - tau—lnfantry. ' William Walter Hall, Snowdon—lnfantry. : - - William Stone, Springston—lnfantry. Walter Leaworthy, Cust—lnfantry, r Frederick Tolmie, Rangiora—Army Service Corps. - Charles Brown, ' Greendale—lnfantry. John Mullaney,; Kaiapoi—lnfantry. o Stewart Bentley Turnbull, Kaiapoi—Ambulance; ■'•..;• .1 Charles Leonard Watson, West MeltonMounted. ....-»■' Henry R. L. Tisch, Bankside—lnfantry. Andrew P. McKay, Bankside—lnfantry. Sydney Hammond, Duhsandel—lnfantry. , Clarence , Alexander McKay, Sanmer—- * Samoa. - V Edward Francis, Kaiapoi—Artillery.