NATIONAL REGISTRATION.

HOW TO FILL UP YOUR FORM.

CUT THIS OUT AND II/DIP IT POE NATIONAL REGISTRATION DAY (SUNDAY, 15= AUQUST).

THINGS TO REMEMBER.

(1) GENERAL.

(1) Keep your form of questions neat and clean. Do not tear or spoil it, and, if possible, avoid creasing or folding it. ,

(2) Write the answers plainly in the spaces provided. Write your surname at the head of the form in 'large letters. TheY are easier to read.

(3) If you have doubts as to how to answer any question, the enumerator who leaves the forms at your how and collects them will help you if you ask him.

(4) If a form has not been left for you at the place where you sleep on the night of Sunday, 15th August, you should obtain one on Monday and fill it up as soon as possible.

(6) If you are travelling on Sunday night, and have not received a form before starting, you should obtain one and fill it up at the place where you arrive on Monday morning. If you have received your form, don't leave it behind you. If you leave home after receiving a form, but before 15th August, take it with you and hand it when filled up to the enumerator who calls at the address where you are temporarily stopping. The same applies if you are returning home after a temporary absence.

(6) You are asked to give your permanent postal address. By this is meant the address where you can usually be found and to which letters to you can be sent.

If you are an employee "living in" (e.g., a domestic servant or shop assistant) give your place of work and residence as your permanent postal address.

(2) SPECIAL points to bear in mind in answering particular questions :—

Question (4). In answering this question you should put down the number of children who actually rely on you wholly or partially for their food and lodging,- or the money to pay for it. If you are a married woman and your husband supports tho home and the children from his income or earnings, you should, never- theless, put down the same reply to question (4) as your husband. Question (5) may have difficulties for you. In the first place, if you are a married man, it is not intended that you should put down your wife under column (5) amongst "other dependants." If you support your father or mother, brother or sister or other relative, and are, in fact, providing him (or her) with food and lodging or the money for it, then he (or she) is dependent on you (wholly or partially as the case may be), and the number of such " dependants " must be stated in column (5).

Notice carefully that persons in your employment to whom you pay wages (e.g., your servants) are not to be entered under column (5).

Question (6) is most important. See the footnote on the form. In answering be careful to state as exactly as you can just what it is that you dolor your living.

Thus for example— DO NOT SAY (e.g.)— BUT SAY (e.g.)—

"Merchant " " Rubber-merchant " or " Tea-merchant," &c. "Dealer" " Clothes-dealer " or "Ship's store dealer," &c.

"Farm hand" "Cowman " or " Carter on farm," or "Plough- man,' &c.

"Labourer" "Bricklayer's labourer" or "Agricultural labourer," &c.

"Mechanic" " Millwright " Cr "Brass-moulder," Soc. ABOVE ALL, your answer should always show the material you work in, if any. If you are ono-aged in two or more distinct occupations, you should state first that by which your living is mainly earned. If at the moment out of employment you should still record your usual occupation under (6).

Question (7). Note in regard to this question that you should only give your employer's name, business, and business address if you are employed by him in his business (e.g., factory, workshop, shop, office, &c.), or in connection with it (e.g., as an agent or traveller or driver of a van or cart, &b.). If you are not employed at all write "None ".in column 7. If you are employed as a domestic servant or a gardener or a coachman or a gamekeeper in a private house or grounds you need only to write in column 7 your master's name, adding his private address if you do not live in his house.

Question (8). In answering this question those people who are working directly under and getting their pay from a Govern- ment department will have no difficulty. But some will be doing work which may or may not be for a Government department— they may not know. In that case the answer should be "Do not know." A moment's thought, however, should decide the answer for most people—" Yes" or "No." • Thus you should say "Yes " if you arc engaged on a piece of work, e.g., munitions work for a private firm which is executing a Government contract. You. should not say "Yes" if you are (e.g.) a clerk in a firm which occasionally gets a contract for a supply of (say) cocoa for tho Navy, or if you are employed by a District Council or other local authority.

Question (9). Be specially careful over this question. Unless you possess practical skill in some craft or class of work outside your present occupation or employment your answer should be "No." Skill in any sort of work requiring special training should be put down, whether persons doing such work are usually called "skilled workmen" or not. Thus, for example, skill in milking , should be put down as well as skill in riveting. If you have changed your occupation you should enter here the kind of work which you were formerly trained to do if you arc still able to do it.

It is not easy to state here all the kinds of work in which the offer of your skill would be useful, but among the most important are the various kinds of—

Engineering and Metal Work; Woodwork ; Agriculture; Mining ; Sick Nursing; Leatherwork ; Hosiery Manufacture.

If you really do not know whether your skill is of the kind for which there is a demand, you should put down your offer ; but remember that there is no discredit to those who answer "None" under Column 9. If, in fact, you have no real skill in work of a kind likely to be useful outside your own occupation that is the right answer.

After you have been registered you will receive a certificate which you must sign and keep carefully.

DO NOT FORGET that if you change your address and leave your home (otherwise than temporarily) you must send your Certificate to the Clerk of the Council of the district where your new s home is, with your new address written on the back (see instructions on the back of Um Certificate). The simplest way is to hand the Certificate in at the Post Office nearest your new home.