SECOND DIVISION CLASSIFICATION
Sir,—Tn this morning's issue of your paper, Tinder the above heading, yon tell us that there is a new basis of classification under consideration by Cabinet Tt is now proposed to classify according to the number of children of a reservist, and to eliminate the age factor altogether. This may mean, in many cases, that a man over thirty-five with, say. one child, is liable to be sent away, if he is unlucky in the ballot, before a man of twenty-one with one child. Surely the men under thirty years of age must be much more fit physically than the men coming on for forty? Then, again, a reservist who is nearly fprty, in ordinary' circumstances, will have very much heavier responsibilities and obligations than the man nearly twenty years his junior. Furthermore, it lias' been publicly stated by Sir .lames Allen that the military nninion weighed in the matter of making a bridge at the age of thirty-five. Trusting that age factor will bo adhered to.—l am, etc., JUSTICE. June 6.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3104, 7 June 1917, Page 8
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