NAVAL RECRUITING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8100, 27 August 1904, Page 5

NAVAL RECRUITING.

[Fkom Our Coiuiespoxdext.] WELLINGTON, August 27. Lieutenant Pickering, the officer selected by the Admiralty to recruit fov tha Royal Navy and the Royal Naval Reserve, has received forty applications in Wellington during the past month for service either as stokers or seamen. Tho applicants are now being tested and examined on board the Tauranga, and tho.e approved will ' commence a five years' service at j i once on board that warship. TUe class j of m<^\\ seemed fairly suitable. Recruiting t for ths Reserve in Wellington, however, Lieutenant Pickering said, has been very , disappointing; only five names having been placed upon the roll for this purpose. 1 Those men he had enrolled at Wellington would put in their drill at Lyttolton, for which port the cruiser was i having in a ' day or two. The recruiting-officer is to t leave for Christchurch on Monday to receive applications for both branches of the naval servioe. Ifc is mentioned that the " Tauranga is to be relieved shortly in New ( Zealand waters by the Phoebe, when tha crew of the former vessel, mci tiding the colonial recruits, will turn over to that - ironclad. '