NATIONAL REGISTER.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1915, Page 8

NATIONAL REGISTER.

RECORDS SHOW FULL RESPONSE. VERY FEW EVASIONS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Nov. 24. To-day the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon. G. W. Russell) stated that .285,000 National Registration forms hail been filled in and returned to the authorities. The forms were still coming to hand through the post and by other channels, so that the response of the community to the requirements of the National Registration Act must be regarded as a very gratifying one. Before the war census was" taken the [ officers of the Government Statistician's department estimated, on the basis of the returns dbtaineti at the last ordinary census, that there were in New Zealand about 320,000 men between the ages of 1" years and BO years. This estimate did not take into account the men who had been sent away or taken into camp already as members of tlie expeditionary forces, and who then-tore, were not to be included in the war census. Tile number of these men was something over 35,000, so that if the original estimate was approximately correct the number of men who have omitted to make returns must lie very small indeed.