OUR VOLUNTEER ARMY.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2723, 18 March 1916, Page 7

OUR VOLUNTEER ARMY.

Sir, —Of course it is difficult to appraise and realise the consuming power of the present European war, especially so in the circumstances of the distance and prosperity if New Zealand. To those of your readers who practise the profession of law, and. who do not concern themselves actually with appearing in the higher .courts of advocates, the figures given at the meeting of the Incorporated Law Society ih London *at the end of January last, and which are published in the London "Times" of January 29, are interesting. Of English solicitors practising in England 'alone .as many as 2384 have joined the troops ; with them may be cited articled D'erks doing likewise 1124; total, 3508. .And on-the other side.of.the, account, showing what has become of them, we read that 131 and 76 respectively have been killed cir.have died of wounds, that '40 and 17 respectively" have been mentioned in dispatches, and that honours have been conferred as follow :—C.B. 2 C.M.G: 5, D.S.O. 5, Military Cross ' 28. D.C.M. 2. „ : ■'. ' | No doubt but that the members ot the Bar in England have an equally creditable , and striking record; and no doubt, too. that tho banks of England have contributed equally gallantly and effectively, as.with every other occupation and community, learned or simple. My friends among Scotchmen and Irishmen will perhaps notice, though with no faltering of their own proper pride, that as I write, I have not before. me the figures of their learned societies similar to the single society from whose report I have quoted. No doubt but that of such'societies the records are equally tr!otiC^OßEßT t DEB.HOVELL. : Wellington, N.Z. , . St.-Patrick's Day, 1916. v' -