"VOLUNTARY SYSTEM NOT SATISFACTORY"
DUNEDIN, Last Night. Commenting on the defence proposals, a business man, who rose f.om the ranks to a high. command during the war, said that no voluntary system jcould be successful from the viewpoint [of economy and efficienc^. Even in preIwar days, when there were fewer coua-itcr-attractions, it was found necessaiy Ito establish a compulsory system, >nd •'even apart from the military aspect the .expenses of a compulsory system weic justified by the stiffening of the inorale and the physique of youth, in whiett obvious detorioration was evident today through no fault of thc youths themselves. It was a strange. complex that the Government was prepared to impose compulsion in so many niatters, yet evaded bringing into eifect what was obviously the only satisfactory j system in a country without a stauding ijirniy and Jiaying a sparse jgopulatiom j
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 3
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