THE GROWING ARMY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2474, 29 May 1915, Page 6

THE GROWING ARMY

70 CITV MEN ENROL

STATISTICS OP STATE'S SINGLE MEN

106,000 NOT ENLISTED MEN POUBINC INTO TRENTHAM CAMP. This week-end men arc pouring into Trentham camp, and in a very littlo while the forces there will number about 7000. Last evening 200 infantrymen of excellent physique and general bearing camo down from Taranaki. They spent the night at the Drill Hall, this morjiing will move into camp at 1 rcntliam. A large number of men will arrive from. Auckland this morning, and they also will go to Troutliam. Tko Wellington quota for the Extra Forco will parade at the Drill Hall at 9 a.m., and later in the day may bo sent to the' training camp- Mon from all parts of the South Island will arrivo to-morrow morning, and in a few days the wholo of the men of the Extra Force will be under canvas. The Fifth and bixtn Reinforcements are already in camp, of course, and the Seventh Reinforcement* will be there in about a fortnight. The Wellington City Recruiting Office enrolled 73 men yesterday., 11ns makes the second time the previous record has been broken during tko week. The record for a day onco stood at 09, but on Monday 88 came forward. Yesterday's 73 also is well over tho former record The day's enrolments mcludcd 11 for the Maori Reinforcement draft Last week 234 men enrolled but already this week that number has boon exceeded by ten. The total number of men which the City has registered stood at 3946 last evening. _ In these days of recruiting, whon compulsory service is spoken of occasionally as a possibility, it is interesting to cast an eye over the progress of recruiting to date, and apply to our future requirements an ha* already been done. A lew ua>s a o o it was stated in The Dominion flat 10 600 men are required by the middle of'Decembor, and 5300 between Dw m " ber 12 and April 16. Since August Now Zealand has raised 25,800 men, which is at a rate of 2580 men per month. At that rate New Zealand will in the six months (from the middle of June,to the middle of December) secure 10,480 men, Tnd from the middle o to the middle of April will enrol 10,320 men. This rate would produce an aggregate for the two periods of; 25,800 L»n, whereas only 15,900 are said to bo of the forces we have raised i during the last ten months are First Samoan Force Main Body B >^ First Reinforcements bW Second Reinforcements A™ Third Reinforcements i.ouu Samoan Relief I'orce Fourth Reinforcements . Fifth Reinforcements (say) 2,000 Sixth Reinforcements (say) -,UUU Extra Force Seventh Reinforcements ... (say) AUUU N.Z. total in ten months ... 25,800 Tho men of military age (between _U years and 40 years) in the Dominion number about 195,000. When the 1911 census was taken tho figures weie: • Between 20 a.ul 25 49,692 Between 25 and 30 64,694 Between 30 and 35 49/ 0 Between 35 and 40 39,403 Total 193,254 When the age limit is lowered, men between eighteen and twenty Tears will bo brought within the term military ace " Their numbers will increase tbe total by about 22,000. The men between forty years and 45 years number about 28,000. So if New Zealand ordered out all its men who are between eighteen and forty-five years of age, her army would total nearly 245,000 men. Deducting unfits, tho ranks would certainly include over 200,000 men. Supposing all the lit men between the years of eighteen and forty-five were c a ]led up, there would be in addition to the unfits about 82,000 men left to carry on the industries of the country. The details are Between 15 and 18 22,000 Between 45 and 50 24i000 Between 50 and 55 20,000 Between 55 and 60 Iu,UUU 82,000 As there has been some controversy on the subject of the duty of married men in regard to the recruiting campaign, it should _be helpful to _ stato tho numbers of single mon of military age who call Now Zealand their country. In 1911 there were 150,000 unmarried men of twenty years and over. The statistics show that 110,000 of these were between twenty and forty years of ago. Almost the whole of the 18,000 men between eighteen and twenty are single, which brings the total of unmarried men up to 128,000 So far we have raised 25,800 men, and allowing that 22,000 of these are single there yet remain in New Zealand 106,000 single men of military age. After considering the numbers of single men, it is informative to ascertain how many married men have no children in their families. Those men number roughly 30,000. A point was raised by a correspondent in The Dominion a few days ago to the effect that widows might have children to console them if the heads of their households were killed, while single women might have no one if all the single men were sent, to the war. On this point there miglit be brought to boar the fact that in Now Zealand the single men outnumbered tho single women by 50,000.

YESTERDAY'S ENLISTMENT. Those who enlisted in Wellington yesterday were: — Porcival Whiteman, farmer, Rosencath. Lothar T;angrad, driver, City. Alex. Chas. Wisnofski, railways cleaner, Thorndon. Ernest H. Eason, engineer, City. Wm. Gilliland, athlete, City. Wm. Richmond, Opotiki. Wm. Walker, circus agent, City. Herbert James, clerk, Tawa Flat. Wm. M. Early, importer, City. Robert B. Hunter, bootmaker, City. H. A. Howell, labourer, Paraparaumu. Chas. J. Contessa, printer, Wellington South. Percy Green, farm hand, City. Thos. Foreman, iron worker, City. Sebaldos Kilowslcy, engino fitter, City. Fred. Wm. Beck, steward. City. Francis Chas. Gray, hairdresser, Chas. Brown, cook, City Fredk. Francis Marshall, clerk, City. Warren James Hicks, accountant, Harrison, labourer, Wellington. „ James O'Brien, fireman, Uty. Ralph Thos. Ingram, ship's officer, C 'cYril C. Waters, ship's officer, City. Norman H. E. Curtis, drover, Johnsonvillc. , ~ . John Joseph Samuel, railway surfaceman, Maiiutahi, Taranaki Angus Gill M'Aulay, lithographer, Karori. , , . Alfred 11. Welsford, lithographer, Wpllinat.no South, William Armstrong, storumr., HraoUJyn.

I''red. K. G. Gappor, engineer, City. I Walter Stewart, City. ! Hicluirfl W. liolim, iiiukU.t mnrinor, | City.

Win. John Woaver, poslnl clerk, (Jitjf, Alex. \V. Jluir, warolmiifieman, City Art.linr Tidnian, printer, Nowtown. Cameron, (Jowlon Johnston, loconioUvo draftsman, (Jilv.

A rl.lmr Frederick Wilkin*, hotel port or, City.

J Lector Russell, farmer, Kilvorsl,renin Kiwtiico F. [laddon, railway employ--I'almorslou Norlii.

Wjlliam Aldrirign, laboiiror, City. William A. 1,i1,t10, wnrohoiiwiinati, City.

■lames M. Wilson, indent agent, City. Georgo A. Duncan, miner, City. William I!. Wilson, ralcKmnn, City. Charles JI. Duek. mercer, City. William H. Phillips, farin-liimd, City, llobort foots, grow, Cil.y. John Cuming, c>|>y-l)olficr, City. ■Tamos Unison, labourer, City. Wilfred K. l'oinlon, painter, IVlonn. William J. Fox, nlork, llrooklyn. ■James Douglas, commercial traveller, City.

Frederick George Helton, iitflroma.li, Citv.

Cliarlos F. Atmoro, lair clerk, KelIxirn.

Chariot) Henry Tollan, iialciimali, Rofte noatb.

Rupert 11. I'ointon, clerk, J'etone. Archibald Louiii Suoklirig, Civil Servant;, City.

Hiohard Cower, printer, Pel am

11. C. Workman, Inotiiialcer, C'il.v. Horace llramlev, Civil Servant, City. Umrgn Ernest N'linn, motor mwhaitia, City. For tho Maori Reinforcements. Clcorßß Moki's, labourer, OUiki. IVlor Climin, labourer, Ol.aki. Samuel l'oliio. farmer, Otaki. Manuel Knocks, Otaki. Mil.a, Arapala, farmer, Otaki. I'ukrt, labourer, City. Wbetu Weliipuhana, olerk, Ohnu. Tatirua Weliipiihaitn, labourer, Ohatl. John Thomas Marino, interpreter, Obnu. Robert Taru Ranslield, labourer, Ohau. Kepa. H. A. Eliau, law clerk, Rotorua.

NOT SHIRKERS

M.P.'b ANXIOUS TO 00. Among the many correspondent!) whoso letters have appeared in Thk Dominion within tho last few dayii was one who suggested that unmarried members of Parliament should set an oxamplo by volunteering for service at tho front. This statoment was brought under tho notico of tho Prime Minister yesterday, and Mr. Massoy stated that five members of his party, not all of them unmarried, had informed him of their dosiro to go to tho front. Two of these gentlemen were endeavouring to arrange pairs. One had asked a certain Opposition member to volunteer also, in order that a safe pair between them might bo arranged.