A GLORIOUS PART.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14147, 26 July 1916, Page 4

A GLORIOUS PART.

I Tho UisH-Hon. W. F. Massoy, as I chairman or the -Recruiting Board" telegraphed yesterday as follows--The registrations for the Nineteenth Reinforcements, which mobilise for trammer this week, show a Dominion [excess of 98^over normal requirements. jlhe official ngures of tho enlistments jtoi the infantry 'all other arms of the | service being full) .as at date of Friaay, the 21st inst., are as follows:— Auckland military district, an excess ol 1; Wellmgton military district an excess of 75; Canterbury military distnct. an excess of 32; Otago military loistnct, a. shortage of JO; or a total .Domnuon excess of 98 . At.the same date 1158 infantry had ma^rfd for the Twentieth Rehiinvfr> ,M-;its, which are due to mobilise tnr t-.nnmg at the end of August. -is tlio- normal requirement for infantry Kir each four-weekly draft is 1816 £ en- ,i; i!ft ) prosent registrations for the .Twentieth, leave a shortage of 658 B™ to ne found in the coming month mo Anzac. troops are now talking a trlonous part in the stimno- deed* of the present great Western " offensive and it is not necessary for me to r&mmd ovcrj hi and eligible man in the dominion of the urge.m; call that daily cniv.oH from his comrades and fellowcitizens in Franco to step forward and ™i thn uan.s in the i-a«ks. ATe read that the Germans are wondering how creat nrex.hr English reserves, because tU.°- v !> !1-°w that the continuance of our, ofrensive will depend on our reserve' strength. Let the military manhood of this Dominion, by keeping up a steady flow of reinforcements, demonstrate to the enemy that our reserve l-orce is sufficient to continue the offensive until a, definite victory is achieved It will .he c, truly glorious achievement if we can mrAnfo'm. our flow of recruits by voluntary enlistment, but maintained they must be, v/hether by the voluntary p. inciple or by bringing into force ,4»£. compulsory powers contained in the Military Service Act. 'j