NATIONAL DEFENCE.
Very gratifying indeed is the steady growth of public opinion in favour of universal military training. So far Sir Joseph Ward has not fully realised how widespread is the feeling in favour of the adoption of a system of defence based upon the Swiss model. That feeling is now being manifested so plainly that the Government cannot much longer refuse to bring down a definite proposal, and we are given to understand, says the Southland "Time?,' that legislation of the kind is at present under the consideration of the Cabinet. It is onh by ensuring that every able-bodied man capable of bearing arms shall be trained for military operations that we can hope to make ourselves reasonably secure, and to keep our place worthily among the colonies that are showing so real a sense of their Imperial duty.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3176, 29 April 1909, Page 4
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140NATIONAL DEFENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3176, 29 April 1909, Page 4
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