MILITARY TRAINING.
Sir, —Allow me to encroach upon a little -space in your paper on the above subject. After having read all the letters that, have appeared in the local papers for and , against any form of soldiering, I, as an Imperial time-expired man, and having served twelve years with the colours, can say something that ought to open the eyes of a few very much-boomed Imperial officers now serving in ■ New Zealand. Why are they trying to form an army of twenty thousand men in New Zealand, when it has only a million souls all told? Now, they know that the United Kingdom, with forty million, cannot keep either regular regiments or the territorials up to anywhere near the required strength. Another thing I would like to point out is the attempt that ,is being made to make a total banishment of kilted regiments in this country. And why aro the Defence Department always placing Roman Catholics at the head of Highland regiments? And when a Scotchman offers his service, asiMajor Macintosh did, ho was asked to resign *iis commission.— I am, etc., BEN NA GAEL.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1118, 4 May 1911, Page 6
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187MILITARY TRAINING. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1118, 4 May 1911, Page 6
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