POSITION MADE CLEAR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 3 December 1940, Page 4

POSITION MADE CLEAR

NATIONAL RESERVE SERVICE AND TERRITORIALS [United Press Association] WELLINGTON, This Day. Service with the National Military Reserve did not take the place of territorial service and was not recognised as an alternative to such, said the Crown representative, Mr M. Sullivan, at yesterday’s session of the Wellington Manpower Committee when William John Hartshorne, a returned soldier, aged 43, appealed for a postponement of service on the ground of hardship to himself. Appellant said he had served in the National Military Reserve since the war started, giving two nights and a Saturday most weeks to this service. Several single returned soldiers in tbo reserve were also waiting to know if service in it was recognised as an alternative. The chairman, Mr M. F. Luckie, said that no matter what the committee thought about the position of such returned soldiers there Was no doubt that the regulations under which the committee worked did not provide that National Military Reserve service was an alternative to territorial service. The reserve had been formed before the introduction of compulsory service. The appeal was dismissed.