THE NEW DEFENCE SCHEME

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 356, 6 April 1910, Page 5

THE NEW DEFENCE SCHEME

REORGANISATION OF THE DEFENCE DEPARTMENT. By Telegrapn.—Press Association. Wellington, April 4. Five New Zealand Defence' Department officers are, now in England obtaining further training. These are Colonel Da-vies, C.8., Inspector-Gen-eral, who iias been attached to the War Office and will return here in July, and Captains Whyte, Grant, Robinson and Burton. The last two have completed their musketry course at Hytlie. Their two colleagues go up for the same course in May, and all are due back in New Zealand in August. One of them will .probably be given charge of the new Musketry School it is intended to establish. The reorganisation of the Defence Department involves the abolition ot peripatetic instructors in artillery ana gunnery. As far as possible, military education will be brought to the door of officers throughout the Dominion and, as suggested by Lord Kitchener, there will be an addition to the number of permanent instructors, one being attached to each corps'. In the higher branches of military education, however, instruction will be centralised, though not' entirely in Wellington. Captain Duigan, one of the New Zealand officers with English training, will have charge of the signalling and engineering branch.