COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.
ADVOCATED FOR NEW ZEALAND, Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 17. Speaking to-day on tho subject of compulsory military service, Air. Justice Deniiiston said it seemed to him that our obvious duty was to prepare ourselves as a community to defend ourselves on land. AVith our small population this could only he done by some such organisation as that which exists in Switzerland AVe should endeavor to make training in arms not merely all episode in the life of each of ns but part of its essence. If even a small part of tlie energy of our young men which found its outlet in games and sometimes less commendable forms l could be diverted to acquiring skill ill the use and practise of arms and a certain amount of drill and discipline we should- in time create something of the feeling of the Swiss Republic, in -which.- a- sense of tho paramount obligation to defend one’s country seemed part of the very fibre -of its people. “If,” he concluded, “we allow ourselves to remain in our -present supine self-con-tentment, I fear we shall some day have a rude awakening.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2066, 18 December 1907, Page 3
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