COMPULSORY TRAINING.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14982, 1 June 1914, Page 10

COMPULSORY TRAINING.

SIR lAN HAMILTON AND THE

CADET SYSTEM.

WILL ADVOCATE IT FOR ENGLAND. (-BBSS ASSOCIATION - TT_._r,B.A_.) WELLINGTON, May 31. An important statement regarding Cadet training was made by Sir lan Hamilton to an interviewer. The General was asked: "You are opposed to compulsory military training in England, as applied to adults. "What have you to say of Cadet training ; .n Australia and New Zealand? "Would you advocate it for England?" "Yes, warmly, in full conviction that I'was doing a patriotic act," replied Sir Tan. "Ono of the main objections to compulsion disappears entirely in tho case of Cadets who are, and havo been, i since the days of Solomon, subject to I compulsion. When I say that I mean ' compelled to go to school, and so forth. - '

' The General is also an advocate, of bull's-eye target-shooting for earlier training of recruits, as affording sound grounding before entering on a figure targefc course. .- Asked as to what ho thought of the rifle clubs iv New Zealand, apart from what ho might say in his report, General Hamilton said he had seen very little of them.. "The men of tho riflo clubs I have seen," he stated, "aro three-fourths of them full of life and vigour, and would no doubt prove most valuable as the second line or reserve of tho active army."