PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1921, Page 1

PARLIAMENTARY JOTTINGS

(Our I’iirlinmcntary C'urrcspondent.)

TO-DAY’S DEBATE. WELLINGTON. Suptfinbrr 20. I’iil'liainciit will it,.-. l lignin tiHimnwv when tlir A.Ultvss-in-Rcply ,h'l,:u,' will he npi-,,,-,1 in riuli Chiinibcr. Mr Wilford limy get the opportunity to move lih iimeiulnu'iit in the evening, Iml „ c’ivisum i.s not likely to lie roai lied for a day or two. Momherx are disposed to hclievc tlmt the didiate will eiciipy this week, hut there is always the possibility of a siiriirise ill these matters. T ill'. TERRITORIALS. Many Territorials wVo Intro completed four years service and lntd exported to pet t.lieir transfer to the reserve, have been informed that they must remain on the active list for another year, bringing them to twenty-five years of aj;o. Defence I!eid(|iiarters explains that this arrangement is necessary in order that the battalions may he kept up to their strength. .Young men who served with the Expeditionary Eoree are exempt from territorial service and as. tuauy thousands of recruits of nineteen and twenty years of ape. were accepted .luring the war. the territorial drafts are correspondingly reduced. Iho difficulty will disappear presently as youths and senior cadets come in. and it will not then he necesary to keep imm in the Territorial force for more than four years.