STUDENTS CALLED UP.
DIFFICULTIES INVESTIGATED.
(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, November 28. Difficulties encountered by students through having to enter camp, thus interrupting studies, were mentioned before the Wellington Manpower Committee when it was reported that the whole question of medical students was being investigated by the authorities, in order to ensure that their studies are not unduly interrupted by Territorial training.
The committee was hearing tho appeal of a medical student about to go to. the Medical School, Dunedin. He appealed for a postponement of his military service obligations. When called up he asked to he. taken, into camp immediately, he said; but the authorities could not take him until the. end of March, by which time his studies would have been resumed. 'J he case was adjourned.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 42, 29 November 1940, Page 8
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