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Taihape Daily Times, 25 September 1918, Page 5

In the course of conversation with a Dunedin, reporter, Lieutenant-Colonel Sleeman said that the raw material for the array in New Zealand had advantages over the raw material in the Old Country, in .that our recruits here were better educated, and of higher physique, and more accustomed to selfdependence. The disadvantages of the New Zealand recruits wcx-c firstly, that they came from homos in which the parental discipline is not as stiff as in the Homeland. Therefore it was the harder to bring them to the military standard of discipline; and, secondly, the colonial recruit’s time of training, reduced to hours, was only one-third of the time in England. The aim of the recruits here should bo to so use their advantages as to compensate for the shorter period; in other words they ought to do their best to learn a soldier’s duty in a third of the time allowed at Home.