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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 355, 26 April 1911, Page 7

Maior-Ceneral Uodley says our people hardly realise what the new scheme means to the young men of the country itself. New Zealand was establishing its army. It was the only army in New Zealand, and the Territorials here would occupy a position which they did not occupy in the Old Country, where there were a Regular Army and a Special Reserve in ' front of the Territorials. The status of the new Territorial citizen officer of New Zealand would be exactly the same as the status of a Regular officer at Home. The permanent staff' and other officers who had come out from Home were really merely helpers of the Citizen Army. New Zealand was the pioneer of the British Empire in regard to complete compulsory training. It was not compulsory at all in the Old Country, and Australia had begun only with cadets. The full scheme New Zealand had adopted, therefore, had a special interest from both a military and a civil point of view and it was a pleasure to him to be associated with such a notable movement.