DRESS UNIFORMS FOR TERRITORIALS
MINISTER AWAITING SAMPLE IFrom Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, November 3. As part of the plan for making service in the Territorial Forces more attractive the Government is taking action to provide members of these units with a dress uniform for ceremonial and social wear. The Minister for Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) stated to-day that the Government had not yet decided on the colour of the uniform, but he was awaiting the arrival of a sample blue uniform of the type worn in Australia. This he would examine together with other uniforms before making a choice. “A blue dress uniform is worn in Great Britain,” Mr Jones said, “but there has been some criticism of it, perhaps because it may be of a poor type. We are anxious to have our territorials smartly turned out and there is no reason why this uniform, which is really#necessary as an alternative to that worn on ordinary duty, should not be as attractive as possible.”
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22241, 4 November 1937, Page 12
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