12 DECEMBER 1914, Page 13

RECRUITING.

[To Tat EDITOR Or rat "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Taking the interest that you do in recruiting, it may be worth asking you to call attention to a matter of detail in regard to the form sent out to every householder by the Parlia- mentary Recruiting Committee. As far as I can see, there is no suggestion as to what a householder like myself, who has no male members of the stated age, is to do. I have entered " nil--nil— nil," and returned the form, but clearly many will not do this, and those responsible will not know why the form is not returned, whether simply from neglect, shirking, or for the true reason that there is no one to return.—I am,