NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1863, 10 August 1918, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS.

THEIR CIVIL OCCUPATIONS. A list of the civil occupations of New Zealand’s citizen soldiers now lighting the Hun in France shows whence our martial spirit is derived. . The list comprises the occupations of all ranks embarked for active service up to and including the 28lh Reinforcements. Farmers and farm-hands as a class top the list, with 18,396 representatives. Labourers, to the number of 11.001, are next in order. There arc 5,143 clerks, who are labourers of a mom genteel kind, 2,584 carpenters, 2,392 carters, teamsters, etc., 1,01 (i miners (1,017 if Private Paddy Webb did not “conscientiously” object), 1,627 bushmen, 1,553 engineers (not marine), 1,520 railway employees, 1,190 blacksmiths and farriers, 1,087 bushmen, 980 post office employees, 979 bakers and cooks, 886 paperhangers and painters, 761 plumbers, 724 grocers, 712 dairy factory employees, 695 wool sorters, buyers, etc., 648 teachers, 639 tailors, 597 printers, etc., 596 horse-trainers, jockeys, etc,, 590 warehouse assistants, 577 storemen, 521 commercial travellers. 512 contractors, 472 sawmill hands, 464 cabinetmakers, upholsterers, etc., 454 drapers, 450 salesmen, 440 gardeners, 403 accountants, 399 surveyors/394 hotel employees. 382 civil servants, 379 firemen, stokers, etc., 357 millers and mill-hands, 359 students, 351 factory hands, 321 soldiers, 310 chemists —and so on down the list, at the bottom of which are 2 acrobats and 1 professional footballer, 1 judge’s associate, 1 footman, and 1 boxer.