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MILITARY CAMPS

Several times lately it has been stated that tho course of training to which our men are subjected is out of date, and that it has all to be unlearned again when the men goto England. A question was asked about the subject in the House. Mr. Anderson (Mataura) asked the Minister, of Defence: Whether it is a fact that the instruction given in trench, /bomb, and other skilled fighting at New Zealand military camps is out of date, and that when the soldiers reach 'tho British training-camps much of what they have been taught in New Zealand military camns has to be unlearned, and training given in the fatest principles of such fighting; and, if so, why experienced New Zealand officers who have served at the front and are skilled in all the latest forms of such skilled fighting are not given an. opportunity of training our soldiers in the latest systems? Sir James Allen (Minister of Defence) replied: Training in New Zealand is limited to the instruction of the recruit to drill, musketry, bayonet, fighting, extended order work, etc. The training in trench-work, bombing, and gas-work is carried out in Sling Camp and Etaplos Camp. The time spent in Now. Zealand limits the training to olementary work, but in any case the technical trench-work-is best taught near to the front, where instructors in the ever-chauging details, learnt as the result of each raid or attack, are constantly available. The NewZealand training fits the men to learn file special work- in the training camps in tho United Kingdom and Franco in the minimum of time.

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3160, 11 August 1917, Page 7

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MILITARY CAMPS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3160, 11 August 1917, Page 7

MILITARY CAMPS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3160, 11 August 1917, Page 7

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