NATIONAL SERVICE
rLANS FOR WIDER SCOPE LEGISLATION IN BRITAIN (Om'-ni \Y'r»!es9i (Received Nov. 23, 3.15 p.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 27 A wide extension in the scope of national service legislation in Britaiti is foreshadowed by a report that the
debate on the subject of womanpower and man-power which will take place in the House of Commons will arise on the following Government motion, which stands in the names of Mr Winston Churchill, Mr C. R. Attlee. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Mr Ernest Brown and Mr E. Bevin: “That in the opinion of the House, for the purpose of securing the maximum national effort in the conduct of the war and in production, the obligation for national service should be extended to include the resources of woman-power and man-power still available and that the necessary legislation should be brought in forthwith.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21590, 28 November 1941, Page 6
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