THE VOLUNTEERS
NEW ZEALAND'S GREAT RECORD.'' , The number of volunteers who went into camp during the war was 83,024. la audition there were 720 volunteers wait* JDK to be taken into camp when the armistice was signed, eo that the total number of fit volunteers was 83,744. Ino Defence records do not 6how exactly how many men volunteered, 'l'ho number of volunteers tegistered between August,; 1911, ar.d September. 1910, when the Military Service Act came into' operation, was 104,407,' but many men had legisleied several times in the sanio ■group or in other groups. Some men even made amenuments in their names in order to have additional chances ol beating the doctors," and ono man mav appear in llio records as si?veral- separate volunteers.
It is estimated. tlmt ■ there were nc fewer than 85,000 nctual volunteers up to September, 1916. There, were. 24,105 vol* unteers subsequently, so that the grnuii totai of volunteers during the war wai in the neighbourhood of 109,000, or, roughly, 10 per cent, of the population.'
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 201, 20 May 1919, Page 4
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170THE VOLUNTEERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 201, 20 May 1919, Page 4
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