EIGHT MEN WANTED.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1915, Page 6

EIGHT MEN WANTED.

RESULT OF SPECIAL APPEAL. TWO DAYS TO ENLIST. NEW RECRUITING SCHEME. Twenty-two fit infantrymen have been obtained towards Taranaki's deficiency of thirty men in the Eleventh Reinforcements. The men have to be in camp on Thursday, thus leaving only two days in which >to get the .further eight men required. The position at the end of last week was that the district was twenty-seven men short, but the response yesterday changed the outlook, and it only remains for a brisk eleventh hour reply by the men to ensure Taranaki's quota being up to strength. There arc men registered at the headquarters at Hawera as fit and willing to serve after the holidays, and to each of these men Major MeNaught (commander of the Taranaki district) sent a personal appeal, asking them to go into camp this week. In reply, eighteen men said "Yes," and they will leave by the mail train tomorrow inoTrting. One man was passed as fit at New Plymouth yesterday, making the total available 19, while three men have already gone to camp. The new quota basis has been introduced by the military. It already has (says a Press Association message) been put into operation for the calling up of. the Twelfth Reinforcements. The National Register lins been used and districts have been called upon to supply the percentage of the total draft which agrees with their percentage of men of military age who filled in the national registration cards. These are: Auckland 27 per cent., Wellington 33.8, Canterbury 23.3, and Otago T6. It is understood that the Twelfth will be 2220 strong, so the numbers required from rach district will be: Auckland 599, Wellington 751, Canterbury 515, Otago 355, Wellington is in a peculiar position, having enough on its books for the Twelfth, but yet has not found its quota for the Eleventh draft.