MILITARY TRAINING
EXTENSION OF' PERIOD IN CANADA STATEMENT BY PREMIER INADEQUACY OF EXISTING SCHEME. I!;. A - waHu«~C.>|<y iaghl > OTI’AWA. February 3 The Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, announced that military training for men aged 21 years would be extended from one month to four. He said that, starting on March 15, tjOOO men would be called up monthly. At the end of the Jirst two months of basic training men volunteering for the navy and air force will attend special sehouLs, At the end <>f four months the remaining trainees will be posted to reserve (mils imd will return to civil life Mr King said he recognised that the earlier 30-diiy .scheme was inadequate am! its also dislocated industry by taking a quarter ->f a million men from their jobs f..;- .< month at ;i time He said that the new scheme would mean that more than 72.000 would have undergone four months’ training by the end of the first year
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1941, Page 5
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160MILITARY TRAINING Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1941, Page 5
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