A WRONG IMPRESSION CORRECTED
THE FOUR MONTHS' TERRITORIAL CAMP
Tho Prime Minister (Right Hon. AY. F. Mnssoy) made a statement on Saturday with'ic-ferenco to the suggestion that young men of Territorial age should receive four months' continuous training in camp. Somo critics of the Government, he said, had been trying to manufacture a little political capital by representing that this four months' training was a. part of the policy of the Govornment, and nlso by twisting the suggestion into a form that did not belong Mr.' Massey said that ho had been outof New Zealand when the matter was first mentioned. TC« understood that the Minister of Defence (Sir James Allen) had stated publicly that recommendations had been made by military experts for tho improvement of the Defence system, and that one of the sugges. tions had been that recruits should receive four months' intensive training in camp when they reached Territorial age, instead of tho" present arrangement of day and night parades spread over a series of years. The. four months' training was to bo given in tho first year and was 'to be followed by short refresher courses in subsequent yearn. "This proposal is not the policy of tho Government," added Mr. Massey. "It was put forward simply ns a suggestion made by the military exports. It has not been before Cabinet in any shapo or form. Tho Minister'of Defence has stated definitely that no change is being made in tho training system this year. The Government will not be committed to any training system of the kind suggested when Parliament moots next year. The manifesto which I issued recently on behalf of the Government contained the following plank: 'Amending the system of military training to provide that_ it shall not 'interfere unnecessarily with tho industrial operations of tho touiitry.' I d> not think that tho country will bo misled by the attempts that are being made to misrepresent the intentions of the Government regarding defence."-
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 51, 24 November 1919, Page 8
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328A WRONG IMPRESSION CORRECTED Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 51, 24 November 1919, Page 8
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