LOWERING MILITARY AGE.
MAY BE IMEW3TABLE LATER. IBy Wire.—Parliamentary Reporter, Wellington, Last Night. The proposal to lower the military ■ age to nineteen years has been abandoned for the present. Ministers are dis« posed, indeed, to suggest that there never was suob. a proposal, but that attempt 'will not impose upon members of and others "in the know."' Lowering of the age at a later date, in the event of the prolongation of the war, is inevitable, possibly after the first) three classes for the Second Divjpi<m have been taken. Tho Government, in the meantime, may propose that lads between nineteen and twenty years of ago be taken intu training carnpg as volunteers, with the consent of their. parents, providin;.' that they have attained sufficient physical development.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1917, Page 5
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126LOWERING MILITARY AGE. Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1917, Page 5
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