National Registration

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 November 1915, Page 3

National Registration

SOME MISTAKES IN THE ANSWERS. Wellington, October 27. TLo work of taking the National .Register has now boon fairly begun, and already the Government Statistician has received packages of completed schedules from as tar away as Christohurch. He lias received however, only some 2000 in all. In the course of the next day or two, he expects to receive many thousands more, and, by tlie beginning 01 next week, a staff of 30 or 40 officers will be engaged i'l examination and classilication of tho cards. The- .Registrar said to-day that the questions were being answered tairly satisfactory, but some few bad volunteered information for which they were not asked. Others .had omitted to supply information—chiefly 'about dependa small number had given allegedly "funny" answers. A frequent omission made in filling in the card is for the signatory to leave blank the space for the name ol the town or country in which lie resides. Fortunately this omission is not serious, bocause the space can usually be lillod .a by a clerk from the address given in another part of the card. Some men have given too wide a meaning to the term "Physical infirmity," and, when asked to state whether they arc suffering from any physical defect, have fill-, eti in such entries as •'varicose veins. The question bearing on this point is meant only to refer to blindness, deaf nests, lameness, loss of a limb, or something of the sort, because obviously •men so affected must be classified as unfit. Those who have such defects as varicose veins merely will be classified «ir. lit. Another mistake that Ims been made is that men above the age oi •!■> years have answered the questions addressed to men ot military age. Still other men who have exxn-essed their willingness to servo as soldiers have answered questions about civilian service. These latter questions aro intended only for those men, who for reasons, cannot volunteer for active service. No individual register is to be compiled from these cards, so that no useful objeet can be served by a ■man giving nuormation about his own case, for which he is not asked. The information supplied will be used only for compilation o'i .statistics. In all. there will be ; < classes into which men will be divided according to age, nationality, willing ncss to serve, and capacity t« sew. x-. is understood that fit men of military age willing to serve will be divided into •five classes—unmarried men without dependents, unmarried men with dependents, widowers with dependents, married men with wife livimi. but no other dependents, married men with wife ami other dependents.