NATIONAL REGISTER ANALYSIS

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13995, 27 January 1916, Page 6

NATIONAL REGISTER ANALYSIS

REASON? FOE NOT VOLUN-

TEERING,

Wellington, Jan. 26. In a vrvliminary statement which was issu<\] In the result of the National Resistor, it was set out that 8390 single men and widowers without dependents had sin ted that they were not prepared to volunteer for the Expeditionary Forties nor to serve in other capacities. These cases have been analysed, and

the results, said the Hon. G. W T. Russeli, to-day, are as follows: —Religious or conscientious objections, 819; business reasons, 2237; personal reasons, 3131; political reasons, 260; ' miscellaneous reasons, 204; no reasons stated, 1739; -totaV-8390. ■