CABLEGRAMS
ARMY EXPERIMENTS. SHORT SEBVICB AGAIN. jjHBD CHANGE IN TWO YEARS. (Received 5.38 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. 'jke War Office proposes to try a new shirt-service scheme, giving two years tie colours and ten in the reserve, ijv, experiment will at present be conjafid to seven battalions. fin April, 1903, important concessions were made in regard to the terms of serfa the Imperial army. With very few exceptions the length of service was then altered to three years with the coining and &ia e years in the reserve. This arrangement was later on done away mth entirely under the new army s£eme' r and on October 20, 1904, it was ordered that all enlistments until further notice were to be for a period of nine years with the colours and three in the
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 253, 23 October 1905, Page 5
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