DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1916, Page 5

DOMINION'S PART.

LISTS ALMOST READY. EXEMPTION BADGES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night, Alphabetical lists of men of military age for nearly all the recruiting districts ,of the South Island have now been issued, and the remaining ones will be sent out within the next day or two. The secretary of the Recruiting Board will make a start with the despatch of the North Island rolls to-morrow, and lie expects to have the work finished by the end of the week. The badges about to be issued by the Recruiting Board will be ready this week. -They will be issued in ordinary course to men who may register themselves to secure exemption or who return from the front in future, but men whose right to badges has been acquired in the past 'will have to make application. Returned soldiers should apply to the Base Records Office, Brandon Street, Wellington. Registered men, that is, those who have been rejected on medical grounds, and men who have been [granted exemption, should apply to the group office in their military district.

The Recruiting Board draws attention to the following letter, addressed by direction of the King to Lord Derby, at the close of his great recruiting campaign in tho United Kingdom: "My dear Derby, Now that your work in connection with the King's appeal for recruiting is over, his Majesty hopes that every man who is entitled to wear an armiet will do so as a call. Yours very truly, (sgd.) Stamfordham."

The armlets issued in the Mother Country to men who have offered to serve are similar to the New Zealand badges. THE FEATHERSTON CAMP. A REASSURING STATEMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Speaking to-day of tho sickness amongst the soldiers at Featherston Camp, Surgeon-General Henderson said j that during the last two days, with the advent of cooler weather, there has been a falling-off in the number of cases reported sick. As he had said before there is not the slightest cause for alarm, and what has "happened since has confirmed that statement. The cases so far have all been slight, and the percentages small, while now the percentages arc diminishing. General Henderson added that there was no overcrowding in Featherston Camp. A pipe-water supply is now being laid on to the canvas portion and\the fly pest is being rapidly coped with. | A NEW DIVISION. Wellington, Last Night. 'Hie Defence Minister states that Cabinet lias approved of a scheme for the creation of a New Zealand division in connection with the rc-organisation of the forces at the front. The New Zealanders in the past have belonged to a mixed New Zealand and Australian division, and General Godley proposes now to form a third brigade out of accumulated infantry reinforcements, Tliis brigade, with two brigades of the original main body, will form a purely New Zealand divison. The matter of reinforcements is under consideration, but probably the present rate will be sufficient to cover the new brigade, as well as the old ones, though some adjustment of the proportions may be ncco=snry. THE THIRTEENTHS 120 MEN SHORT. Wellington, Yesterduy. The Defence authorities announced to-day that the 13th Reinforcements mobilised last week, are I'2o men short in infantry. The shortage from the Canterbury district is the greatest. It is hoped that the deficiency will be made up within tho next few days.