18-Year-Olds Now Become Liable For Military Training

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23091, 2 November 1949, Page 6

18-Year-Olds Now Become Liable For Military Training

Youths in the Gisborne district who had their eighteenth birthday yesterday will be the first to become liable for compulsory military training under the Military Training Act, Registration will commence on January 0. 1050. when all lads who have turned 18 years of age between November 1. 1949, and January 9, 1950, will be required to report at the office of the Department of Labour and Employment within 14 days. Thereafter, youths must register within 14 days of their eighteenth birthday.

■ The Department of Labour and Employment will be responsible for arranging the medical examination of recruits, and it will fall to the department to ascertain the youths’ preferences in regard to branch of service. The dispatch of ealling-up notices for the first camps will follow.

Recruits will be required to give fulltime service for 14 weeks in camp, followed by three years’ part-time service of (if) days’ training and six years in the reserve. Thev will be paid 11s fid per dav on enlistment and at the rate of 12s a dav when they are posted to a Territorial Force as privates.

The rale of 12s will be paid for all training done, six hours training being reckoned as one day. There will be no pnv for parados of less than one hour and a half.