MILITARY TRAINING IN SCHOOLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9564, 10 August 1909, Page 3

MILITARY TRAINING IN SCHOOLS.

"' Lord Strathcona's munificent gift | of £50.000 for the promotion of the I physical and military training of \ schoolers rrny be expected to ~iye great Impetus to a al L ready firmly established in Canada. It is, indeed, expected that witin two months all the provinces will have availed themselves of the same arrangement as the Dominion Government has already made with Nova Scotia for the introduction of the elements of military instruction into j the public Echools. In the junior classes this instruction will be of the most elementary nature, and will be concerned in the main with the i physical condition and bearing of I the pupils. In the high schools, I however, the boys are to be funned into cadet corps, and to receive a supply of arms and ammunition for practice. So that ths school | teachers may be themselves prepared for this addition to the clasß curriculum, the Dominion Government will lend the services of some of the members of the permanent corps for the conduct or schools of instruction for teachers. It is believed that the moment will be of immense value to the. militia service. In Nova Scotia the introduction of drill and the elements of military instruction have been introduced into tne schools with very little of adverse comment, or of that dread of militarism which is supposed to prevail in the average Canadian household; and, if the comments of leading Canadian newspapers are any indication of public opinion on this subject, a uniform system of physicial (raining, of elementary drill and of trifle I practice will soon be in force from | one end of Canada to the other.