“CLASS DISTINCTION” IN ARMY
Selection Of Officers A suggestion that there were still some class distinctions and preferences in the selection of officers in the Army was made by Mr Clyde Carr (Lab., Timaru), in the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives. He said that men from the ranks were not always given the same consideration in selection for officers as men from certain classes or certain schools. , Some were chosen, he said, from tne O.T.C. and some from the 0.5.T.8. “What is that?” asked a National Party member. Mr Carr: The Old School Tie Brigade. (Laughter.) . Mr Carr said that many specialists were still retained in the Army who were acting as mess orderlies or were looking after drains. Such men might well be released. He also made a plea for the exercise of discretion in choosing men to undertake the arduous work of harvesting. Mr Carr said he could not understand, moreover, why university men should receive special consideration, while men _in trades, deserving equal consideration, did not receive it.
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Southland Times, Issue 24996, 8 March 1943, Page 5
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