DISCHARGED SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2860, 26 August 1916, Page 2

DISCHARGED SOLDIERS

—_— ._ . J THE INFORMATION DEPARTMENT. ■ The Discharged Soldiers' Information Department, of which the Hon. A. jL. lierdman is in charge, has issued the following report of progress up to August 23:— ... : 1. Total number of men' on register: (a) Disposed of, 3794; (b) under action, 106G; (c) not ready for action (including men returned bv recent transports), 508. Total, 5368. ■ 2. Reports received from interview- ' ing officers, 4117; reports in bands of interviewing officers, 237; reports'is- ' sued, 4354. 3. Particulars showing how cases dealt with: (a) Cases disposed of—(1) Left New Zealand or cannot ascertain address, 134; (21 rc-enlisted or returned to military duty, or have work *«' return to, etc., 1491; (3) men who liavi* signed "assistance not required." 947; (4) lien placed in employment, 905;. (5) men who have not responded to repeated communications, and men who have accepted wort the Department found for thfiu but failed to start work, 203: (0)- men who have drawn sections of laud, 314; total, 3/94. (h) Cases under action—(l). Reports . upon cases not yet returned'bv officers making inquiries. 237; (2) awaiting further advice (chiefly men who ■ have staled that thev are not yet desirous of work), 498: '(3) at- present on employment wanted register, 331'; total, J'OGS. (c) Cases not ready for actionMen recently returned to NW Zealand, now convalescing, not roadv'for cm-, ployment, and not yet discharged hy the military authorities, 508. Grand total, 53G8." -~''■. Employment h wanted in WeUimrtnn as follows: —Light outdoor work 1, light work 1, married envnlc (man gardener or farm work and wife- governess) 1.

Mr. J. Ross Thomson, the assistant general secretary, of the New Zealand Section-of the Theosophical Society, and the national representative of the Order of the Star in the East, is visiting Wellington, and will deliver the first ofhi scries of pnolic lectures at the Society's Hall, Ballance Street, on Sunday) evening, entitled "The Invisible Worlds •Around Us arid. How we Contact Them."