COURSES FOR OFFICERS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 81, 31 December 1918, Page 7

COURSES FOR OFFICERS

TERRITORIAL TRAINING SPECIAL INSTRUCTION AT TRENTIIAM A series of instructional courses for selected officers and men will be- held at TrenHiam Cnmp during the next few months, rommcnciiiK on February 5 and continuing until the end of the training season (liny 31). The courses will ho divided into four —muskctrv, machine-gun, physical training, and 'infantry drill. They will he open' to: (1)-Selected officers and n.c.o.'s of the - Staff Corps, Permanent Staff, Territorial Force, and Senior Cadets; <2) a special course for n.c.o.'s of the Permanent Staff. The duration of the course will ho as follows:-(l) Territorial Force and Senior Cadets, 14 working days; (2) special course for n.c.o.'s of tho Permanent Staff, one month. The course for the n.c.o.'s of the Per-manent-'Staff will he from ■ February 5 to March fl,' 1010, both days inclusive. For all officers and n.c.o.'s other than the special course for Permanent Stalf n.c.o.'s there will be six separate courses as under: First course, February 5 to 21s second course, February 22 to March 11; third course, March 13 to Marcii 20; fourth course, April 1 to April 1C; fifth course. April 18 to May 5; sixth course, May 7 to May 23. The number of officers and n.c.o. s pcrmillcd to attend the above respective courses from tho lYcllinKton District is: (1) Special Permanent Staff course, 1(1 n.c.o.'s; (2) musketry course, 3 officers, Ji n.c.o.'s; (31 machine-Run course, 3 oliieer.-\ 3 n.c.o.'s; (1) physical training cnurso, 4 officers, a n.c.o.'s; (5) infantry drill course, f- officers, 5 n.c.o.'s. In addition to the forei?oine; the Wellington district is permitted to selecttwo field officers to attend a senior officers' refresher courso in all subjects, for 1-i- worldn? davs (dates not yet fixed). The attendance of these officers and n.c.o.'s will bo voluntary, and written consent of their employers will have to be obtained, but all will be required (o ntl-oiid for the whole period.

Group and unit commanders are ■ required to su'vnit the names of all officers and n.c.o.'s willimr lo attend any of these courses, Each officer and n.c.o. before he can attend must bo specially selected and rrcommended in order of merit 'ill (heir lis! liv their respective commanding officers. Tho reouircd numbers will be selected by District Headquarters from the names of all those, submitted, and their names will be immediately notified to "their respective unit commanders. Each course will be quite distinct, and thoso attending will require lo be capable of performing a good deal of hard work. . , ; The n.c.o.'s for the special course, for Permanent Staff n.c.o.'s will be recommended in the following order: (1) Permanent Stuff, compulsory; ('-') fonniorary staff, in. order of merit, omjlting those known to be leaving tho service m tho near future. As the 'Wcllingtrm district has always led the wav in attendance at courses ot instruction'it is earnestly Imped Hint it will maintain its position at these courses, which, owing lo the cancellation of the annual training camps, are. more important than any course previously held, and although the lime allowed for the recommendation of nominees for the fiv~t and second courses is very short, the officer commanding the district appeals, to unit and group commanders to gel into immediate touch with all concerned and forward bv wire, if necessary, to District TTendfiuavters the names of those recommended for at least the first and second courses by January 10.

Canada to-day is said to be the richest country in the' world, per capita (writes the Toronto correspondent of tho Christchurch "Press"). Her war debt per capita is lower than that of any fighting nation. During the past year Canadians accumulated 485,000,000 dollars in bonds, and over 100,000,000 dollars in cash more than they had on July 31, 1017, that representing concrete accumulated wealth. On July 31 this year the deposits in banks were more than a billion live hundred million dollars, or 100,000,000 dollnjs more than was on deposit in Canadian banks on the same date a year previous. In the meantime Canadians have invested 425,000,000 dollars in the Victory Loan, 1017, and besides that thev had bought in the 12 months G0,000,000 dollars worth of provincial and municipal bonds. ViTiiiu UlO production of sugar has incre.isid enormously in other parts of the world, the output in Europe lias decreased owing lo the necessity for producing other crops, and. to the scarcity of fi-itil-isers. ]n Germany the sugar produced has dropped from 2,000.00 fltons i» liU-l----15 to 1,000,000 tons in 1017-18; in \usrriaHungarv from 1,010,000 tons to 0G8,2M Ions; lii Belgium, from 121.019 lons to 08,053 tons; and iii France, from '700,277 tons to 1!)!),SS2 tons. I