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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 28, 23 June 1914, Page 5

commanders. 1 to decide to . what extent, the services of any member of the permanent instructional staff should at various periods of the year be (pSfteed at the disposal of tiie unit commanders. Otherwise, they should be regarded as . 'being normally under the orders of the (urea commuii<ler6. DISCimNE AND PATRIOTISM. Discipline, the main force of armies, h closely allied to organisation. Such, a senso of <ohe»ion, and cf being under as wi. j e management as good organisation can (five, amounts' in itself to i. sort ol' discipline. Up to this point the forceu of New Zealand are disciplined. Further, there is ft common iwisji running tlnoiigh all ranks—a wish to do well. Where every one wishes 1)0, dc the same thing there is no .strain on distipim'. In this negative sonse also, the forces of New Zealand aire diftcipi'ined, but the "real test of discipline comies when men are ordered to do sometiling hard and disagreeable, something Which aip)ii;aiß to them unnecessary or mistaken. 1' > put it plainly, a deep moral chu>m intenvenes between a tenmiles innn-.li on a' flne day on a full stomach, and t ., twenty-five-jniles much, on a dark rainy night on an empty stomach. Tx;t us but get the tJiorougfc' habit of discipline on top of the glowing New Zealand patriotism, and no one In this world 'o'ild wisn for more. A WORD TO THE OFFICERS.

What U .veiled is that officers, e* pecially company officers, should under- " stand ctvarlv (hat they are for time heii!» fiiihi-rs and mothers to tihe -'J lada entm-t-.l to Miem for a brief pe> riod by Hi.' t uate. Tliey must know i each man, not bv nnmc only, but be''3 sure of f.lic iran. They should be aM*.i toi giiestt what he i'k thinking without wiutJaf: for him'to apeak, and'*i always ihi-.v.omiat mui'inbej that ther-'-a issue no ,t JtuicMiid fri-fl, ant uettv mX J scnal iiiul iv ■, l,uf. cvor Jtnd only as State «.<- r,, Kls of the Sovereign: | At pre:,; tit all this nviy *cem too haxdM but hinli>r ..In., condiiinns of have tiona rr 1 ' "T 1 *°" w »»gA

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