AGE LIMIT INCREASED
SPECIAL MILITARY FORCE WELLINGTON MEN’S MARCH (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. An increase of five years in the age limit has been made, and applies to all ranks of the special military force. The enlistments up to last night totalled 13,681, of whom 10,677 have been medically examined. A total of 6470 have been classed as fit and 2908 temporarily unfit. Officers and non-commissoned officers of the special military force reported to-day to whichever of the three training camps they have been posted, and the movements of various drafts have given the general public the opportunity to see on the march some of the men who may go overseas.
The draft for Trentham paraded at headquarters at Buckle street at 9 a.m. and, headed by the pipes and drums of the First Battalion of the Wellington Regiment, paraded through the main streets to the railway' station. The draft for Burnham went south last night, parading at the ferry wharf to go aboard.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20054, 28 September 1939, Page 7
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166AGE LIMIT INCREASED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20054, 28 September 1939, Page 7
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