NATIONAL DEFENCE LEAGUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81831, 25 August 1906, Page 2

NATIONAL DEFENCE LEAGUE.

Per Press association. x Auckland, August 24. A National League of New Zealand has been started in Auckland under favourable circumstances, with -- the object to ensure domestic peace and security from alt possible invasion by obtaining the national adop-tion-of the following safeguards: (1) Universal defensive training, either ashore or afloat, of all boys and young men until the age of 21, with the encouragement of continued training; (2) all men engaged in every branch of local maritime and waterside industries to be licensed, preference in all State employment and licensed occupations to British citizens, who fulfil special training conditions; (3) all assisted immigraton to be confined to Pritish stock, and to those who have fulfilled or agree to fulfil special training conditions ; {4) rifle ranges to be provided in every township, and Morris tube ranges in every urban and suburban school district; (5) sufficient rifles to be kept in the country to arm every capable citizen and sufficient ammunition in suitable centres \ to make all riflemen effective for defence. One of the methods is to organise a house to house canvass of the colony, placing literature in the hands of every elector, and particularly by arousing the intelligent patriotism of the young, also to obtain a referendum, if necessary, and by securing at a referendum an overwhelming majority for universal defensive training on the lines laid down in the objects of the league.