SERVICE WITH FORCES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24604, 12 May 1941, Page 6

SERVICE WITH FORCES

YOUTHS OF NINETEEN REGISTRATION IN HALF-YEARLY CLASSES (Rec. 8 p.m.) RUGBY, May 10. In the hope of avoiding calling up men under 19, the Ministry of Labour and National Service has decided to register men by half-yearly classes as they become 19. Thus men born in the first half of 1922 and becoming 19 in the first half of 1941 will be registered in, or soon after, July, 1941. Those becoming 19 in the second half of 1941 will be registered in, or soon after, January, 1942, and so on. For men born in 1923, the policy naturally is subject to change at any moment to meet the exigencies of war. As regards students over 19 at universities and other places of higher educaiton, those now reserved will continue to be reserved, provided they make satisfactory progress in their studies and become members of a senior training corps or of an air training corps. Exemption from the latter requirements is granted in certain exceptional circumstances. Arrangements are being made to'defer the calling up of apprentices in essential trades until the completion of their apprenticeship, or alternatively until they turn 20. •