THE DEFENCE FORCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 9, 11 June 1913, Page 8

THE DEFENCE FORCE.

CONFERENCE OF OffFIOBSw Per Press Association. Wellingtons, Ttacatkjr. Officers from various districts, who u% carrying out the defence scheme, are .J meeting in conference to-day for the '" •purpose of discussing matters affecting,, the operation of the seheme to the light of the experience of the past year. Mr. Allen addressed the conference and : told the officers that the Government valued very highly the way they had set to work to carry out the scheme. The purpose tho Government had in view / was not alone to create a man who would ' be able to take up arms to defend him " country, but something more. The aath- j orities wanted to make a citisen in th*i| fullest and most complete* sense of ttti'j word. They were trying to utilise scheme as a means of creating citizen mentally and morally,,*nd fovit#§| the Church and those whose special bu»P -Jiess it was to load in moral and religiwtfl development to go to the camps. He M<M ed that he had gone into the questions of musketry training and ordered four* Solan's targets to be sent to New land, one for each centre, in order that-; tho development in training with theS miniature rifle range might be for musketry instruction. ," 4