CANADA.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14156, 19 April 1916, Page 5

CANADA.

THE RECRUITING QUESTION

NATIONAL REGISTRATION URGED.

Ottawa, April 17

A deputation representing 42 recruiting leagues in various provinces waited on the Cabinet urging national registration. They declared that men were iirt coming forward in sufficient numbers, while the high proportion of married men, each costing £8 more monthly than single men, was not desirable.

Sir Robert Borden, white promising to give the matter consideration, declined to coniKiit himself to the abandonment of voluntaryism. He admitted that there were loopholes in the voluntary system for economic waste. Still, they were procuring the recruits required at the rate of a thousand a day.