OFFICERING THE SECOND DIVISION
MINISTER OP DEFENCE REPLIES TO LEAGUE. Tho Centra] Executive of the Federated Second Division Leagues recently made representations to the Minister of Defence, pointing out the undesirableness of officering the drafts of married men with youths, and a reply has now been received from Sir James Allen as follows:— ' .
"I am in Teceipt of your letter of August 25, conveying copies of resolutions passed by the National Second Division Leagues at a meeting held on the 23id instant, respecting the officering of Seeond_ Division drafts. In reply, I have to inform you that in respect to the first resolution the 'officers will consist of a proportion of Territorial officers who are themselves, in the Second Division and ,of mature ago and experience. As ,is "the. regulation at the present time, no officers of the Territorial Force who have had less than twelve months' service,' and are under twenty-three years of age, will he appointed as;officers for Second Division drafts.
"Respecting the second resolution. In June last tho General Officer Commanding the New Zealand . Expeditionary Force was given authority to A'him from the frpnt twenty officers .per month who have been tried actually in the fir-ing-line', to assist in tho training of reinforcement drafts in New Zealand, and to command units proceeding on active service. These officers are now hecoming amilablo regularly, and as tho establishment of infantry officers per reinforcement draft is thirty-one, there would appear to bo, no necessity to establish a special officer training class it once for the training of Second. Division officers.'
"In adefition to the twenty returned officers per month, a certain number of commissions are granted to the returned non-commisstoned officers and ren on the approval of the General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, which number will be • further augmented by the appointment to commissions of non-commissioned officers of the Second Division prior to departure from New Zealand/' '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3181, 4 September 1917, Page 6
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320OFFICERING THE SECOND DIVISION Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3181, 4 September 1917, Page 6
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