YOUTHS PAST 20

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 169, 19 July 1943, Page 4

YOUTHS PAST 20

TO BE MOBILISED

EXEMPTION FOR STUDENTS

(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

In accordance with the announcement recently made by the Primp Minister, it is proposed to mobilise for full-time service in the territorial force Grade I. and Grade 11. youths who have attained the age of 20 years. This was announced by the Minister of National Service, Mr. McLagan, to-day. Many who will thus become subject to mobilisation were released from the forces earlier in the year when the 18 and 19-year-olds were allowed to return to their ordinary vocations or studies.

"It is fully appreciated," said the Minister, "that many of these youths will have been studying with a view to sitting for examinations towards the end of the present year. University students, however, who have completed two terms satisfactorily will be eligible for consideration by the University War Concessions Committee. University students, therefore, who desire a temporary postponement of mobilisation, should obtain a certificate from the registrar of their university college and submit this to the secretary of the appeal board, who will make arrangements to defer mobilisation until the end of August. "Those university students who are at present held under appeal because they are taking an 'approved' university course of study will not be affected by this mobilisation." Insofar as other students are concerned, arrangements have been made for their cases to be dealt with on their merits, application for this purpose being made to the secretary of the appropriate appeal board.