TWO-FOLD OBJECT.
GOVERNMENTS SCHEME. (British Official Wireless.) Received January 25,11.50 a.m. RUGBY, Jan. 24. The object of the Government’s voluntary national service scheme is two-iold :• — (1) To fill the vacancies in the various branches of military and civil defence. (2) To .safeguard the essential industries and services in war-time. The second object, which involves the prevention ol the recruitment ol persons who should be retained in war-time in their peace-time occupations, is the reason for tiie issue of the schedule of the reserved occupations, while the first object will be achieved by the distribution of the National Service Guide, giving a simple description of the various services. The schedule of “reserved occupations’’ covers about 3,0U0,UU0 men who are over 45. Only about one in live of the male population between 18 and 25 years ol age is affected by the schedule.
The voluntary national service scheme aims at a civilian defence army of 1,200,000; also a reserve of 600,000.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 9
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