Over the Age
DISAPPOINTED RECRUIT. What’s your name ? Thirty-nine. Cutting pretty close to the forty limit, aren’t you ?jj should take you to be nearer forty-nine than thirty-nine. Thirty-nine is the age I gave you. I'm here to sign on. Very well; its not for me to contradict you, and I suppose you have’nt your birth certificate with you. No, I haven’t! Is this the form 1 Right.
And the registration form was duly filled in. and accepted, and the applicant for enlistment passed on to the examining doctor. The form came back with the inscription “ apparently fortv-five ” opposite the “ age ” line, and w-as duly reunited to district headquarters. It was returned with instructions to make further inquires as to the applicant, and those enquiries ended in the discovery that the man’s age was actually fifty-five 1 He was rejected, and there is not a more disappointed man in Wanganui to-day than this “ thirty - nine - year - old man of fifty-five.” There are men well within the limit who might well emulate the same spirit of ardent patriotism.-Wanganui Chronicle.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 18 June 1915, Page 3
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178Over the Age Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 18 June 1915, Page 3
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