DEFENCE OF THE DOMINION.
COMPULSORY SERVICE.
MR JUSTICE DENNISTON ON THE QUESTION. > ]!Y TKl.Kcnuril - riif'.SS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, December 17. Speaking 10-day on the subject of compulsory service, Mr Justice Denniston said it seemed to him that our obvious tduty was to prepare ourselves as a community to defend ourselves on land with our small population. This coild only be done by* some such organisation as that which exists in Switzerland. We should endeavour to make training in arms not merely an episode in the | life of each of us but part of its essence. If even a small part of the energy of our young men, which found'its outlet in games and sometimes leas commendable forms, could be diverted to acquiring skill in the use and practice of arms and a certain amount of drill and discipline, we should in time create something of the feeling of the 2\|Swisi Republic, in which a sense of -jjnfe paramount obligation to defend country seemed part of the very fibre of its people. "If," he concluded, "we allow ourselves tore main in our present supine self-con-tentment. I fear we shall someday have a rude awakening."
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, 'United Press Association—By Eljctric Telegraph t Copyright.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9008, 18 December 1907, Page 5
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