UNIVERSAL TRAINING.
The man who has had a reasonable military training will be in every way a better citizen for it, and even if he is never called upon to make direct use of his training the State as a whole will have gained and not lost by giving it to him. Universal training may be advocated on the ground that if a great national emergency should arise the volunteers who will be eager to offer themselves in the defence of their country will be able to offer aid that is worth having owing to their training, and, says the "Timaru Herald," not merely the half-useless aid of patriotic sentiment. Universal training would, in case of actual invasion, give a coherent and organised force in the shape of the men who were actually undergoing training.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3011, 7 October 1908, Page 4
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135UNIVERSAL TRAINING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3011, 7 October 1908, Page 4
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