OUR MILITARY EFFORT.
INTERESTING FIGURES. (From Our Own Correspondent) Wellington, May 23. During the war New Zealand sent abroad for foreign service 1)9,894 officer! and men. Of this total, the compulsory recruits numbered roughly 19,000. The great majority of the membeffi of the Expeditionary Force, more than 80)009 men, were volunteers. Voluntary recruiting for tlie Expeditionary Force from the outbreak of war to September, 1910, when the Military Service Act came into operation, produced 69,085 fit men. This vu thft number of men sent into camp. There was some wastage in the camps subsequently but the percentage reduction was small.
After the Military Service Act came mto operation volunteering continued concurrently with the balloting system. The number of volunteers after compulsion had been introduced was 24,105, aaft of this total 13,939 men were sent to camp, while 720 were under ordflTß tat cainp when the armistice was signed* Medical re-examinations added about 200 fit men to this total.
The number of men called up by lirifap (excluding Maoris) was 134,032. Thnfiqmen were classified as follows: - ,
First Division „ 8008$ Second Division, Class A (mar- ' ried men without children) .. 13t4f16( Second Division, Class B (married men with one chiH) .... WjBM Second Division, Class C (married men with two children) Total called up - . ~.: r Some of these men were not me£erf£ examined. They made successful M peals, failed to appear, or were ed for in some other way. The numbajj of ballotted men actually examined 121,519, and they were dealt with -fig follows: Total fit men embarked .. 18*839 Total fit men not embarked VfiSS Classed C2 78#S» Classed D i&Z Total 121^19 _ The result of the medical eiamina* tions according to classes is shown iQ the following tables:— lstdiv. Oamft Fit men embarked .. .18,008 78® Fit men not embarked 10,886 2016 Classed C2 39,990 B*ls Classed D , 2,201 109 Totals 71,063 M.33T Class B Class Q Fit men embarked .. 32 4 Fit men not embarked 5,533 8,861 Classed C2 10,850 13,598 Classed D 130 111 Totals 16,551 22,574 _ These figures show that only 36 ma» ried men with children were sent abroad under the compulsory clauses of the Military Service Act. The 27,275 fit men who were not embarked include a large proportion of the 9924 men who Were in the training camps at the date of the armistice, and also some thousands of men who were granted exenu ption or suspension by the military ser* vice boards.
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