NEW ZEALAND'S WAR EFFORT.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17125, 21 April 1921, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND'S WAR EFFORT.

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

Details of New Zealand's war effort in men and money will be found authoritatively stated, for the first timo, in the 1920 Official Year Book. Tho total number who attested in the Expeditionary Force, and who left for service overseas wa'3 80S5 officers, 08,809 other ranks, and 550 nurses. A total of < J924 troops were in training at the date of the armistice, bo that the complete number of nurse* and troops provided for service overseas at the cessation of hostilities was 110,363, or more than 10 per cent, of the Dominion's mean population in 1914. A further total of 33/0 are known to have left New Zealand to serve in British and Australian forces. Of the total of 121,211 men provided from the commencement of the war. 91.C-11 wore volunteers. Wastage while undergoing training accounted for a loss to the force or 11.333. The total number of deaths from the war and its consequences in the Expeditionary Force was 16,781. At May, 1920, some 3057 service patients were still undergoing treatment, in New Zealand. The total war expenditure im t0 March 31st, 1920, is "riven as £7<J,953,C 76.