MILITARY INSTRUCTORS.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 July 1919, Page 4

MILITARY INSTRUCTORS.

(To the Editor) Sir,——-I noticed an article in your paper of July 18th, about; the. ~territoria.l- - and, while I do not wish to—comment on that, I would like to con.tradict statenient made in it, re instructors. I qualified as an instructor at one of the British Army Command Schools, and it may interest you to know that, a prospective instructor is taught to cut out all bullying and bad lianguage. Instruction was based on four principles. Demonstration, explanation, imitation, and examination —and much the same was followed through tlfe diiferent branches. The fact that the instrudt-or in New Zealand used the n1etl1o(I~s} you comtpllaiii of just goes to prove what we overseas instrucltors Taflready kmow. that the Government made a blunder in employing men who did no't know their job, and can easily refffiedy it by employing ; men, in the future, who have qualified ‘ at British Army schools during thel war.-——l am, etc., MUSKETRY INSTRUCTOR. I Terne Biay. Auckland.

(The article referred to by our Auckland correspondent was 3. reference to the generally low tone of camp life rat Featllerston and T'ren’tha.m. and the langwagc used by instructors. whic.ll, it is ‘stated. if -given voice to in the streets. would result in their doing a term of imprisonmen*t.——Ed.)