21st REINFORCEMENTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145082, 6 September 1916, Page 6

21st REINFORCEMENTS.

SHORTAGE OF 796 MEN. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Sept. 6. The official figures of tho enlistments for tho infantry for the 21st Reinforcements, which mobilises for training during the last week of September, and which figures include the shortage for tho 20th Reinforcements, were as follows, as at date of Friday, iSoptember 1: Group No. 1, Auckland, shortage 14; No. 2, Pacroa, shortage 27; No. 3, Whangarei, shortage 37; No. -1, Hamilton, shortage 02, Total shortage for Auckland Military District, 140. Group No, 5, Wellington, siinrtago 64: No. 6, Palmerston North, shortage US; No. 7, Napier, shortage 66; No. Ba. Masterton shortage 52; No. 8, Hawent, shortage 84. Total shortage for Wellington .Military District, 384. Group No. 9. Christchurch, /shortage 30; No. 10, Tiiiikni, shortage 31 No. 11, Kaiapoi. surplus IS No. lla._Grc.vmouih, shortage G 7; No. 12, Nelson, shnrtago 5. Total shortage for Canterbury Military District, 115. Group No. 13, Dunedin, shortage 46; No. 14. Invercargill, shortage 62; No. 15, Oamaru, shortage 34; No. 16, Milton, shortage 15. Total /mortage for Otago Military District, 157. Total Dominion shortage, 796.