MILITARY AGE LIMIT.
HOSPITAL BOARDS ACTION
"DISGRACE TO OUR LEGISLA-
TORS."
Some trenchant remarks were made at the meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday, when Mrs Comyns moved that the Board protest against the suggestion to reduce the military age limit 'to nineteen years.
"At the present time," suggested Mr Bassett, who pointed out that the day might come when it would be necessary for New Zealand to do it.
Mrs Comyns: There are thousands of men about yet. Mi> Bassett : I quite agree with you. "It is a disgrace to our legislators that they should attempt, such a thing at the present time," declared Mr Fletcher, warmly. "It would be a step in the wrong direction, and showing, more or less, the white feather to the onemy. We hear reports of German prisoners aged 18 and 19, and it is accepted as a sign of the exhaustion of tb.eir manhood. Such an action on our part might also be construed that way." The motion was carried unanimously. ; _____^
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17063, 16 August 1917, Page 7
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