OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS
< i I THE HOME GUARD I • (To the Editor.) Sir.—The Home Guard has been no-, ! tilled that the weekly night parades i are to be abandoned and a fortnightly i parade on Sunday’ mornings held. The reason given was that the men would learn more in four continuous hours than twodiours. This sounds quite all right, but if a man happens to miss one parade lie has to go four weeks; without instruction or drill. Example:! It parades are held on the Ist. 15th and ! 29th of the month, if the 15th is missed j he goes from tne Ist to the 29th without a parade. My contention is that j by holding weekly parades, if one is missed only a quarter of the time is I missed. If. on the other hand, one fort-j nightly parade is missed half of the [ lime is lost. As an allernative, I would suggest that (he weekly parades be; continued and one field day be held ! every fourth Saturday afternoon.—l I am. etc.. GUARDSMAN Masterlun. February HI. | THE CALL ON MANPOWER • To the Editor.! Sir. —1 see that the British Goverit-1 ment has granted exemption trom mil:-! tury service to students below mili-| I tary age. wh.le they are studying at : | the universities, and if they h:.\ e r.m ! ■ finished their >uidie< u hen mdit.iryi j age is reached then they ar<- granted ( ;• reasonable extension of the exemp-; I tion. to enable them to tiualily for any I professions they may choose. This is ai I new thing in England, but not in the old. countries on the Continent where! i they have had experience of the evil; t effects oi indiscriminate reci tiitmg. .< | There was a good excuse for Napoleon j I to send youths in their teens into the i ranks when he had Io.A his army ini ! Russia, iii’.d his allies, Prussia and Aus-1 I tria were turning on him, but where j is the excuse lor us to let our young men m the colleges and those qualify- j mg for a trade be enticed to enlist be-1 . fore they have qualified for either a i I trade or a i rofession, while we have! I conscription ami till medically til men; I of military age are liable for service! | and can be called up at any time they : { arc wanted'' it is not only a. question' i of gettrn;' eiionj'i; men. but it is even I | more important to get the right men ! Anti siu viv that camtot be tin- voung ; J men below mditary age, fitting them-i solves for •• trade or a profession.: I How that sort <■: thing work.- out n' j practice wa- .’■.•■en m S; an., wb.eit .-lie | began to t eem ; r from iter wars j Technically skilled men had to be mtJ we do not run trjeh-j iris lor on: schools ,n:d h i t ;h h-t: a , • pi'ofc i: and .-.kilii-d labour : :: j what is more evident tlian that the j most cate will navi- b> < J the selection of the own oft •> bullo' Your, etc HANS (' riiO/dS! ! Master'.on Fi bi nary a.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1941, Page 6
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