TRAINING THE SOLDIER.
THE TIME REQUIRED. By Telegraph.—Press Association; Wellington, Sept. 14. When lecturing at the Officers' Institute regarding the training of reinforcements, Colonel Mac Donald, Director of Infantry Training in. Camps, was asked the minimum time 5 required for the recruit training of territorials. Ho replied that he had not considered the maiter and was unable to give an answer off-hand. They must remember, if they were to do anything, they must have a good foundation, and l»i3 experience with the reinforcements led him to the belief that four months was the shortest period in which: this could be obtained, and even then the territorial would not be a trained soldier. That time would not be sufficient for troops which were to take the field as a, unit, which was entirely different from going to the front as reinforcements. They could not turn, a unit out much under a pear. An officer asked if cadet training could not be regarded as a substitute for the four months' preliminary course. Colonel Mac Donald pointed out that cadet drills were intermittent and amounted at the best to only a fortnight's training in the year. .
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1918, Page 2
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193TRAINING THE SOLDIER. Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1918, Page 2
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