NATIONAL REGISTER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 15 October 1915, Page 4

NATIONAL REGISTER.

THE FORM OF QUESTION. first call for single men. Tlio National Register, which was authorised by Act passed during the recent session of Parliament, will he completed in the near future. The arrangements for the collection of the

necessary information are now in hand, and within the next two or three weeks the men of military age throughout tlio country are likely to he. called upon to fill, up the forms that will be distributed to them.

The Government has approved n form that is designed to make it clear to everybody concerned that the first call is to the single men and the men without dependents. After supplying information regarding his ago, health employment, and position in relation to dependents, each man will ' be required to answer one of the following questions:—

If you have not already volunteered for service, are you, if a single man .without dependents, willing to become a rhember of the expeditionary forces?

Are you, if a single man with dependents, or a married man, or a widower with depndents, willing' to become a member of the expeditionary forces if required? •

THE WOMEN’S REGISTER

Speaking in the House of Representatives the other day, the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey) said that within a few weeks every woman in New Zealand would be given an opportunity to offer her services to the State. Massey explained on Wednesday, when the matter was mentioned to him by a reporter, that the organisation of the women was going to be on an entirely voluntary basis. Forms would be available at the postoffices throughout the Dominion, and the women who wanted to indicate her willingness to servo the State if her services were needed would have the right to obtain a form and fiM it in. Th forms will provide for the collection of information regarding the experience and qualificatons of the women. Knowledge of nursing or of ambulance or industrial occupation may serve as a qualification for service. The possible requirements of the Government in this direction are not known, much depending upon the duration of the war, but it is becoming apparent that with the increased rate of recruiting now required new avenues of usefulness are going to be opened to women.