EDUCATION
YOUTHS AND ARMY SERVICE The drafting of men from civil Mfe into the Army in such a -way as to make little adverse difference to national security while avoiding interlerence with education Avas recommended in a letter to the Minister ol' Education from the Rongotai College Parents' Association.
It was suggested that school teachers should be declared an essential undertaking, and that no more public school teachers be called for service Avhieh obliges them to relinquish their duties as teachers. Ii was also suggested that no young men under 20 years of age be drafted into the armed forces. These young men, it, Avas pointed out. would, if drafted direct from educational institutions, be at a great disadvantage at the close of hostili-
ties since they Avould possess no vocation to which they might return, and in the search for employment they AA'ould take last place in competition Avitli older men. It Avas also emphasised that the prolonged and continuous association of youths in their late adolescence Avith older men was undesirable.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 4, 14 September 1942, Page 5
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173EDUCATION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 4, 14 September 1942, Page 5
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