RECENT CAMP CONDUCT
A Christchureh correspondent sayo that local military circles view with considerable indignation the allegations recently made regarding the conduct of the camp held at Palmerston North, and emphatic opinions are expressed that the picture has been much overdrawn, for the purpose, primarily, of discrediting the compulsory service system. One officer said that it seemed to him that the charges were made simply to bolster up the opposition to the compulsory system.- He himself had attended many camps, and had seen and heard mucli that lie would rather not have seen or heard. No man, however, was compelled to swerve from the patli of strict rectitude on account of the example set by other men in camp. Bad examples were founfl right through life, and no man could be so protected as never to come within sight or sound of those examples. "You cannot give a man strength of ciiaracter by withdraw ing all temptations from him," declared this officer, "and, as far as I know, few have been corrupted on account of what happened Tlurfng camp life."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 18 January 1911, Page 8
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180RECENT CAMP CONDUCT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 18 January 1911, Page 8
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