MILITARY SERVICE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17281, 23 September 1916, Page 9

MILITARY SERVICE.

•■-••'■■ ,— —♦ ■ ' ENROLLING THE RESERVES. NEARLY 160,000 APPLICATIONS. CHANGE OF ADDRESS PROBLEM. [From Our Coubbspondent.] WELLINGTON, September 22. Owing .to the partiality of the average New Zealander to move arourfd, if only from one house to another in the same district, the Government Statistician's staff have been faced with a difficulty of unexpected magnitude in compiling the roll of the Expeditionary Force Reserve. The number of changes 3i addresses on the part of the men who had sent in papers under the first war census is so large as to be likely to cause extra delay in sending out the enrolment certificates. It was intended to type these certificates in advance from 1 tii© information in the Department's possession on the first war census card, but the numerous changes of address which have been reported by these enrolled men will necessitate extra work. It is intended to send all those who have notified change of address a card of acknowledgment, as in the case of applicants for certifijates of enrolment. Nearly 160,000 applications for certificates of enrolment have been sent in, and it is estimated that the enrolment shirker' is not numerous, as the original rough estimate of eligiblcs in New Zealand was 200,000. Allowing for the men who have gone, this makes tho estimate about equal the ascertained reality. On the interesting point as to how many of tho remaining 160,000 are in the first division, and how many in the second^' the authorities oannot give dcH lite information, as the ' papws have yet to be sorted. They believe, however, ■ that the proportions are about eqinal—about 80.000 in each di- - virion, Out of the first 47,000 men who left New Zealand in the Force, four thousand were married.