ACTUAL VOLUNTEERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1919, Page 7

ACTUAL VOLUNTEERS.

[ NEW ZEALAND'S SPLENDID PART. (.From Our Own Correspondent,) Wellington, May 19. The number of volunteers who went into camp during the war was 83,024. In sedition there were 720 volunteers waiting to be taken into camp when the armistice was signed, so that the total aumber of fit volunteers was 83,744. The Defence records do not show exactly how many men volunteered. The nnmber of volunteers registered between August, 1914, and September, 1910, when the Military Service Act came into operation, was 104,467, but many men had registered several times in the same group or in other groups. Some men even made amendments in their names in order to have additional chances of "beating the doctors," and one man may appear in the records as several volunteers. It is estimated that there were not fewer than 85,000 actual volunteers up to September, 1916. There were 24,106 volunteers subsequently, so that the grand total of volunteers during the war was in the neighborhood of 109y000, or roughly 10 per cent, of the population.