THE AGE LIMIT.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16311, 13 August 1917, Page 6

THE AGE LIMIT.

If the Government ever had any, intention—and we hope it had none—of reducing- the agie limit for oversea service from, twenty to nineteen years, we think it most improbable that it has any how. _ That suggestion should be killed by the protests that have been made against it from all parts of the dominion, and most prominently by Second DivisionLeagues. The First Division will have done their share, and nobly, when all the boys who are fit, and above twenty, gone to serve. Men of the Second Division would not be nien, if they wished to shelter now behind younger lads. If the war lasts long- enough boys of nineteen may be needed, but the time has not come yet to send them abroad. That boys go ffdfiT) England at nineteen years is nothing to the T>oint. They do not go across the world to serve, and, when thev are not in tho trenches, they can be protected against dangers greater possibly than any, which the trenches afford. We trust that the last has been heard of sending' boys who axe not twenty under a compulsion system to the Front.