GIRL TOLD TO REPORT
Service Error In Australia (N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) BRISBANE, June 9. Australian Army officials have sent a letter to a 20-year-old school teacher, Miss Leigh Mallory Martin, of Goomeri, north of Brisbane, asking her why she has not registered for national service. Miss Martin, a commercial teacher at Goomeri High School, said: “But I’m too small to carry a rifle.” This morning she opened her mail and found a form letter from the National Service Board asking her to explain why one Leigh Martin, aged 20, and thereby subject to register for service, had failed to do so. “I just laughed and laughed,” said Miss Martin, who is sft IJin, and brownhaired.
“My parents named me for a Second World War air hero who lost his life before I was born,” she said. “This sort of thing happens all the time." Queensland’s labour and national service regional director, Mr A. Gibson, admitted that apparently there had been an error somewhere. “But we will still' have to have proof that Leigh Martin is a girl,” he said. A month ago the National Service Board tried to call up a 21-year-old Tasmanian housewife and mother.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31082, 10 June 1966, Page 5
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197GIRL TOLD TO REPORT Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31082, 10 June 1966, Page 5
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