VOLUNTEER RECRUITING
SUCCESS PLEASES MINISTER.
PROGRESSIVE INCREASE SHOWN.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Wellington, Last Night.
Pleasure at the success achieved in the reconstruction of the military forces on a voluntary basis was expressed by the Hon. J. G. Cobbe in an interview today. He said that having regard to the coni pa rison between Great Britain and New Zealand of the populations only, and disregarding many advantages in service in the territorial army in Great Britain for a prospective recruit which could not be reproduced here, it had appeared that under the most favourable conditions New Zealand would raise a force of about 4000.
The strength at May 31, however, was 6938, and this 'figure was not the result of a burst of enthusiasm but was the result of a progressive increase in the number of recruits ever since the recruiting opened, and this progressive increase was being maintained.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1932, Page 7
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