ENLISTMENT FIGURES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 9

ENLISTMENT FIGURES

AN INTERESTING ." RETURN. - The Defence Minister presented=a. .return to the House yesterday showing the number .of men that'have registered in. the different 'military districts in. the Dominion, and the numbers who had been passed by the doctors, and who had been sent into camp from the outbreak of war to June 20, 1916. The return shows that the total number of men registered Jn the Dominion was 90,324; passed bv the. doctors, 63,373; k and .sent, into camp, 59.153. The figures-for the, four military districts are as -follow:-.. Medically into: District. Registered, . fit camp., Auckland ...23,191 16,914 15,996 Wellington 28,875'.. 22,6,2. .-1,159. Canterbury ... 23,150 13,1<9 .T'H.,Otago li,BOS - 10,60S _ ■ ) - 6S - Tolal ......: 90.321- 63,373 " 59,183.

The remarkable "suggestion -that hypuotism might be nscd by Red : Gross, stretcher-bearers and orderlies nv reheyiM. the agonies of the wounded on the battlefield was made bv Dr./F. Gilbert bcott, in a lecture-on "Experunents>wi Hypnotism" at the International Club for , I'sycbical Research. "It is potentiallv in evervone's power," said Dr. Scott, to affect the nervous-system of anyone else, either in the hypnotic or the conscious fltatc. Anyone can hypnotise by securing (.he willing co-opeartion of the patient, find can produce *1 state of anaethesia as. complete as can be produced by cnloro-. form or ether. While the sufferer is hypnotised the painful elements of Ins illness can .be. completely got rut oly-bnd habits, such as drunkenness, can bo eradiciited. ami nervous disorders totally overcome." • "Augustus," his wife shouted m a •voice of command, "I will not have y.ou crumpling the hearthrug in that manner!" -''Henrietta I .want" you to . know," said the husband in a tone 6f manly determination, "that there is bufc one person in- the world. that I will . allow to talk to me in that way: 'And who is that, sir, may I ask? siiq thundered. "Why',' you, my dear!' he answered gently. ■■ ."