NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES.
"We don't want a large force, we want between 8000 and 9000 altogether, but we want good, strong, healthy young chaps who are likely to make leaders in the future, because if war comes you get all kinds of nien, but it's leaders that you want most, and that is the basic principle on which I am trying to reorganise and mechanise the forces of this country," said Major-General J. E. Duigan, speaking in Wellington. Cavalry in the British Army was being mechanised, and there were very few horses left, said Major-General Duigan. Horses were gradually being done away with — they were very vulnerable to g^as, Mechanisation was going ahead, and he hoped that in another six months artillery on rubber tyres would be doing 40 miles an hour. The day of the army horses was dying, and dying quickly. Co-operation of everybody was ineeded if much progjress was to be made. Schools of instruction had been formed, and the response had been excellent.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 1, 24 September 1937, Page 4
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168NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 1, 24 September 1937, Page 4
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