MILITARY TRAINING.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1919, Page 4

MILITARY TRAINING.

TflE TERRITORIAL SYSTEM. DISCIPLINE FOR BOYS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. When is it proposed to institute th# territorial training camp schevet Sir James Allen was asked to-night. "I have Baid that there will be no alteration till 1920,' 'replied the "Minister, "but I am going to make a itatement about territorial training when I get time to do it. All I can say now is that the territorial training of the past was inefficient, and to a considerable extant, a "waste of public money. We could have got very much better results from the expenditure of same money in another way. Corfiety trated efforts always secure better results than disintegrated efforts." In reply to a question, the Minister said he had no tine for tho junior cadet system. There was no need to instil into boys anything savoring of the military spirit. There tw bo qu«»tion what was wanted in the primary schools waß physical drill, and the ale* ments of discipline taught by drill, applied to both boys and girUThe senior cadet stage was another ®t<nry. He understood from school teachers themselves that they did not approve of the introduction of military training into the primary schools.