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Show jNEW ZEALAND'S ENLISTED HEN They Are the Highest Paid J Soldiers, Receiving a Bonus for Good Service. WELLINGTON' New Zealand. March' 122. (Correspondence of the Associat-j led Tress.) From the fact that New Zealand soldiers in this war "may" ( now be paid up to $10 a week above their ordinary wages it is asserted in the dominion that they are the high- est paid soldiers In the world. The spe cial allowance is for men who can establish es-tablish that their civil obligations jus-jtiby jus-jtiby their receiving it. And it -is payable pay-able alike to "wents" and "sents" as volunteers -or drafted men are called. One of ihe grounds entitling a soldier to additional pament is: "Expense in respect of the management manage-ment of his business during his mlli- i tarv st i'vire " Prior to the new grant the weekly rate of pay for a married private in the New Zealand expeditionary force ranged from $10.80 for a man with a l wife only to support to $17 for a man with a wife and five children. Some time ago the recruiting board decided to refuse enlistment to any more mar- ried men with more than three children. chil-dren. Under the new scheme a private I with a wife only "may' receive $20.50 a week. The first draft of the dominion's compulsory enlisted men to the number num-ber of over 1000 went into camp the latter part of January. These men were chosen bv the "ballot" or drafting draft-ing system; that is. by the use of numbered marbles and card indexes. They are no different in appearance or in any other detail from voluntary re-craits re-craits Meantime voluntary enlistment enlist-ment continues in some districts. If the full quotas are obtained that way. the ballot system is not applied there The men drafted with but few exceptions ex-ceptions responded cherfully, .md many of them plainly welcomed a system sys-tem by which the gnornment shouldered shoul-dered the responsibility of deciding that they were to take up arms. With over 80,000 men in the field or in training the civilian walks of life in New Zealand have been depleted to a noticeable extent, but the general opinion is that as long as the major part of tjiese men return the temporary tempo-rary loss of man power will not have! been too heavy a price to pay for the establishment of a future national army. The dominion's population is about 1,500.000. rr |