PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1917, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

SPECIAL CAMPS FOR CI MEN. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter). Wellington, Aug. 0. A hint of a new development in connection jvith reerditing was given in the House of Representatives this afternoon, A member suggested that the Defence Department should establish preparatory training camps, in order that men in tho CJ class, requiring treatment to mako them, lit for'active servioe, wight b» given preliminary training, and afforded a chance of becoming physically,„fit. Sir. James Allen at once replied: "That is already arranged for." There is reason to believe that camps of the kind indicated would secure many hundreds of additional recruits from the First Division. The men would be given physical and elementary military training of a lighter character than that provided in the regular training camps, and as they became fit they would be drafted into tlio reinforcements.

CALLING UP THE 19-YEAR-OLD LADS. There will be some protest in the House if the Defence Minister proposes to call up the nineteen-year-old lads before taking the Second Division mea Sir James Allen has stated himself on more than one occasion that soldiers who have not attained adult years cannot stand tho strain of war, Germany and Franc* are both usugg thatr bays *tt 17 years, but thsy took fir»i their yovatf married men. "The Second Division men don't want to shelter themselves behind the boys,"' said one member this evening.