MILITARY TRAINING
COMPULSORY SERVICE
NO REQUEST TO N.Z.
(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. “No request of any kind was made by Sir Alaurice Hankey when he conferred with us a few weeks ago.” This statement was made by the Prime Alin is ter, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, in reply to a question as to whether the secretary of the committee for Imperial Defence had asked while in New Zealand for the reinstitution of compulsory military service or for greater armaments expenditure. Mr. Forbes said that Sir Alaurice Hankey met the Cabinet at a specially convened meeting. All that took place was that the steps taken by New Zealand in the past year were clearly stated. Sir Alaurice expressed himself satisfied with what he had heard, and made no request at all.
AUSTRALIA’S FORCES
LONDON, .Tan. 7
Sir Maurice Hankey, interviewed by the News-Chronicle, denied that he proposed the rein traduction of compulsory training in Australia, or a 10 years’ period of defence reorganisation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18598, 8 January 1935, Page 7
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