SCHOOL MILITARY DRILL
LABOUR MEMBER’S QUESTION PARENTS’ CONSENT DESIRED. EXPLANATION IN PARLIAMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, March 3. Mr. W. E. Barnard (Lab., Napier) asked in the House of Representatives today whether, in the distribution in boys’ secondary schools of forms-of enrolment and attestation for military service, instructions were given that no boy was under obligation to: enrol or attest, and whether the parents of such boys were informed or asked to consent to the enrolment of their sons prior to filling in and the completion of these forms. Mr. Barnard said it was reported that boys of 13 years had been enrolled without the knowledge or the consent o 4 f their parents. The Minister of Defence (the Hon. J. G. Cobbe) said in most schools where enrolment forms were distributed there was at least one teacher who was a military officer, and it was his duty to explain the position with respect to enrolment. It was not the . wish of the department that any boy should be enrolled without the knowledge or consent of the parents. Labour members: “Hear, hear.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1933, Page 9
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