MANY OFFER, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN
NAVY AND AIR FORCE CANDIDATES FOR SERVICE By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Wednesday. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, Lieut.-Colonel C. M. Headlam, In the House of Commons today gave the following remarkable figures relating to last year’s recruitments to the Navy and Royal Marines. The candidates totalled 53,915, but those accepted only numbered 5,655. The number awaiting a decision was 394. The rejections were due to physical, medical, or educational unfitness. The Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, said the candidates for the Air Force last year totalled 8,356, of whom only 2,453 were accepted. The rejections were due to educational unfitness, deformities of the feet, poor physique, and diseases of the ears, heart, vision, and lungs.— A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 280, 16 February 1928, Page 12
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