Second Edition. NEW ZEALAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 3, 7 December 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. NEW ZEALAND.

TflltfflVlOWAL RE CIST EH

A M -TNTER EST UN CCOMP!L AT ION

ykaiJUWTagists for service,

108,683.

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[Umtjkd Press Association.] Wellington, December 7

According to the National Register returns, the total number of men. in New Zealand between the a,ges of 19 aid 45 who are willing to become members of an expeditionary (force it required, is 109,683, made up as fol}q V8 :--rSingle.men and widowers - without .dependents, 33,127; single meu with ...dependents, 16,321; widowers with dependants, 947; married men with, wife only, 8944; married men with wife, and otker dependents, 50,-

Other results show that the number of men who are not prepared to volunteer for an expeditionary force, but are willing to serve in a civil capacity is 43,524.

Those not.prepared to volunteer nor serve iu a civil capacity, 34,386; volunteered for expeditionary forces, but rejected, 90'42;; British subjects iucapacitaledioj military service, 3903; foreign subjects 3026. PRIME MINIStTr ON RECRUIT-

Per •■ Pbem yUMPofAWONv ■ ; t Wellington,December 6. In .the course bf a deputation to the .Prime -Minuter regarding war, pensions, (Mr S. A.- Atkinson- said- ho understood tlial; the'Defence Depart* munt that 1000 more men be called at once, and that married; raen fcmM ' h .e called upon. Before Wfcfyfa done,- however, $m .. wanted 'to know .where wore.' file, payjifor them wagifluito. inadequate'.'" The Defei&e'ftrtQUitfiri. fas present said that he &t& not admit that tho time halNfcfoe -fof mc,L t 0 supon. "" ' '; Jtje Prime 'Miniver said also that eome when.they men. -He ( boped soori to show'ibUt!,* Imt .if Jauy amendwent of" 'the fwpM »*» " eees ", sarv it. would be effected when Parliament met. In a few days they would know where they stood in regard-to recruiting, because the war census would b« completed. I "But don't'imagine weare not doing; much- recruiting," Mr IMassey,, igxjd;'because' we are not .making jnxich'noise. ! ';Vfe are doing a,los, and dome's to tell it, I think :v '; Canterbury .Mounted^.'^jfles:"Died, oY&unsliot wounds ; and , compound iWSurelof skull, bm-ied at sea ' be"tween Mudros and Malta— Corporal J. Mitchell. • ' • Qtftgo iMoiinted t Rifles ■: Died of . wounds 'aMVKUnn hospital, England --ACting-Corporal Jr B: Dalton. Auckland Battalion : 10th casualty clearing statioit. iDardanelles, died of wounds—Acting-Sergeant J- M. hi pence. Canterbury'Mounted B Hies— Trooper H; S; Hudman. Killed 1 in action ■.'Wellington' BattalHon—Private R. F. Richards. ' tilled in action: Canterbury BatUHon—Private.A. S. Dick. Mm in action: ■Wellington M6un-' tediPvifles—Trooper X J. Brant. Died of enteritis; N.'Z. Field Artillery— Private W. 3. latbru'm. Died of heart failure, fallowing thali aria;;; : Otagp Battalion Lanee-Cor-pocal E. A:: Shannon. , _ Auckland M.R:—At inquiry held in Sacsi caipp. Lemnos. October 16th, i-eaAimablo to suppose dead— Troopers R, Kvßailiie, L. W'.'Bartrop. A. D. Cook. L. Fletcher. .1. O. Fryer, X.- P. Gibson, C. B. garrison, l\ R. Haydon, ■'.!. H.'Metcalfe, J.McKinrvpn, A. D. McLcoil. P. G. Palmer, R. A. Richmond! h. Black, F. Clark, V. A. FaUiner, J. Fotheringham, C. W. Francis R. L. H. A. God : frey, E., Hewitt, T. H. L. Hickman, L.iR, Jones, C-. C, Milling, M. Toole, P, Wheatley. I>ance-Corporal F. K. Best, Corporal-.«.. Harrison. Sergeant J..P. Doughy, Sergeant E. .McCarthy, Sergeant.C. h. J)a\ves, Sergt.-Major Vk J. Hamer, Sergeant G. W. Otter. Previously reported wounded, now . discharged convalescent; NZ. Field Eaaitteers-*-Corporal H. J. A. Oil let. i Battalion—Private B;.

ifcttckfend Battalion—Pnvate J

Pcftrerr IHviteiotial Train—Private 'Osborne.

Wellington,' December, *»• The Imperial Government Supply Branch Wday reached six million; pounds sterling in payment for mea*. The precise amount is t £6,t)33,974. MS- is for l 268;160 quarters of wef,. 2;109;479- carcases of mutton, and 2i#2.669 carcases;of lamb, Of that Entity iofnieat the- following hasarrife at its destination: . 249,868 darters of fcfel;' 1,588,261- carcases ot ftjjtton; and %337,975 carcases ot Utah. , . .. The,first, compiled returns from the <if '&« Sfc&ster for Internal -Affairs to-morrow. They -will show approximately the number of men without dependents who have expressed their

willingness to volunteer for active service. The completion of the whole register may be accomplished this week. " As a result of the Manawatu A. and A. Association's fine effort in holding a patriotic show, the sum of £3O1 f l was raised, and the money will go to the Sick and Wounded Soldier's Fund, The Salvation Army ha s decided to inaugurate a Soldiers' (Hub and Institute at Kotorua, for the benefit of wounded soldiers who are convalescing there. Arrangements are now iu haiid. Mastei'ton. December 6.

Mr H. C. Robinson, who organised the unity platform in Masterton, todav received the following telegram from Captain Donald Simpson,, irom (Sore: ''Your suggestion the- only solution ; .keep pegging away'' Mf Eobiaaon. has replied, on behalf ot tua •platform, "We know that New Zealand has the heart and we-will do our best to help start it."