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forces likely to affect it. It is on this account that it offers 

 the opportunity for study and criticism, and why attention 

 is beiog paid in the course of this address to it especially, 

 as a part of the work of the Repatriation Department. 



In planning the reorganisation of the scheme, an accu- 

 rate estimate of the total number of men to be trained had 

 to be made, otherwise the very foundations of the scheme 

 would be faulty. It has already been pointed out that the 

 ending of the war made it possible to determine the number 

 of injured, and that this number could, in the light of the 

 data obtained by experience, be reduced to the number 

 likely to apply for and go on successfully with training. 



There was, however, very little upon which to base an 

 accurate estimate of the likely number of applicants 

 amongst those eligible in the " under 20 enlistment class." 

 Some basis for an estimate was afforded by the ratio of 

 those attending technical schools in peace time to the 

 number of the population in cities, and through a know- 

 ledge of the character and outlook of the young Australian. 

 This slender basis, together with an allowance for the 

 heightening of the men's ambition due to travel, was, as 

 a matter of fact, used, and results have shown that the 

 judgment made was wonderfully near to the final total 

 number applying for and successfully proceeding with 

 training. 



After much research amongst the records at the Base 

 Record Office of the Defence Department, and the exercise 

 of judgment in the light of the data available, it was 

 decided that under the reorganised scheme — that is from 

 the 1st April, 1919, onwards — a total of 15,110 would be 

 put into and would succeed in training. This total was 

 composed of 3,960 injured, and 11,150 of the " under 20 

 enlistment class." The figures given were arrived at 

 after making allowance for the number of those who would 



