MILITARY TRAINING.
PROGRAMME FOR THE YEAR. "The sylabus of the Defence Department for the 1925-26 military training year is to be similar to that for the 192425 year, which will end on May 31st." In making a statement to this effect this week, the Minister of Defence (the Hbn. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes) said it had been a great disappointment to him that, owing to the infantile paralysis epidemic, it had not been possible to complete training in camps. The Minister said he looked upon the camps as being of the greatest value in the Dominion's system of military training. Not only did they increase -efficiency, but men who found the ordinary parades irksome preferred the camps because more was to be learned there than at ordinary drills. The feeling of esprit de corps which was so marked before the war was again becoming evident, and quite a number of returned soldiers who had gone on the Reserve List were rejoining their units because of the camps. Next training year it was hoped to hold camps in all centres. The Minister concluded by stating that the coming training year would be similar to that now concluding in matter of parades.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18371, 2 May 1925, Page 5
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