CALL ON YOUTHS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1941, Page 6

CALL ON YOUTHS

SERVICE IN TERRITORIALS ON ATTAINING AGE OF 18. STATEMENT BY MR NASH. i (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. '' The decision of the Government to extend the age limit of the First ' Division so as to include males who have attained the age of eighteen years was announced today by the Acting-Premier, Mr Nash, “This action," the Minister said, “does not involve any corresponding alteration in the age limit of any other class of the Division. These young men are required for home defence in the Territorials. They will not in any case be called upon to serve outside New Zealand until they have reached the age of twenty-one. “Registration must be made forthwith. Forms for the purpose are obtainable at all. Post Offices. These men will be called up by “Gazette" notice early in June and, if certified medically fit, will be required to enter Territorial camps for training at the beginning of July. Those who subsequently attain the age of eighteen will be called upon at monthly intervals. Only those youths who are thoroughly fit and who pass a careful and rigid medical test will bo accepted."

SECOND DIVISION SUBDIVIDED INTO CLASSES. REGISTRATION AT LATER DATE. WELLINGTON. This Day. The order giving effect to the decision of the Government to enrol the eighteen-year age class also provides for the classification of the Second Division, which has been divided into twenty classes, according to an official announcement gazetted today. They comprise four groups, each of five classes, subdivided according to age and number of children. For example, the biggest class, married men aged twenty-one to forty, both inclusive, is subdivided as follows: No children, Class F/0; one child. F/l; two children, 172; three children, F/3; four or more children. F/4. A similar subdivision is made in the case of all the other classes, namely, married men aged 41 to 45. both inclusive, denoted by the letter “D” and married mon aged twenty, denoted by the letter “E.” Although the Second Division of the Reserve has thus been classified, married men are not required to and must not effect, registration until tiic issue of a proclamation directing the enrolment of the Division, which will be at a later date.