THE NEED FOR MEN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 6378, 19 July 1916, Page 3

THE NEED FOR MEN.

Absurd Rumour Refuted. Wellington, July 10 A rumour appears to have recently gained currency in various portions of the Dominion that no more men will be required for the Expeditionary Forces after the Sixteenth Reinforcements leave New Zealand. There is absolutely no truth in this report, nor has any information come to the knowledge of the Recruiting Board to justify any person giving expression to such an opinion. The circulation of a .statement of this kind is apt to be most prejudicial to recruiting, and hcrefore 1 wish, as Chairman of the Board, to give it the fullest and widest refutation. So far from the time having arrived when we can slacken our efforts, we are now at a stage of the great crisis when it is more than ever essential that our forces at the front should be maintained at full strength. All indications point to our enemies having attained the maximum effort, and now is the time when our own armies and reserve of men and renewed that the cmwfycmf and renewed in order that the signal allied successes of the past fortnight may be driven home to final victory. Every man of New Zealand who is free to go is wanted. W T . F. Massey, Chairman of Recruiting Board.