MEN FOR THE ARMIES.
BILL IN COMMITTEE. PEW OLDER MEN WANTED. Australian and N.2. Cable Association. ' (Heed. 1.40 a.m.) LONDON. April 11. During the Committed stage of the ManPower Bill, Sir J. W. Spear, Unionist member for Tavistock, moved to reduce the ago limit from 51 to 48.
Sir Auckland Gcddes, Minister for National Service, stated that if the Government went much further in taking men of the present military age, it would seriously hamper the country's war effort. He implored tho House to realise .that it was dealing with' a complicated problem. Taking all tho men of tho present military age would be one of a hundred ways of, losing the war, The Government proposed to take only 7 per cent, of those between 40 and 50 years this year, leaving 93 per cent, in civil life. The right course was to give the widest range of choice. Sir Edward Carson appealed to the House to pass tho Government's scheme without amendment. It was based on a careful and conscientious inquiry into the whole problem by Sir Auckland Qcddcs.
The amendment was rejected by 262 votes to 152.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 8
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