LORD ROBERTS
AND THE NATIONAL SERVICE LEAGUE. TRAINING OF BOYS. (Received Last Night, 10.35 o'clock.) LONDON, June. 29. At the annual meeting of the National Service League, Lord Roberts stated that the membership of the League was now 91,142, an increase of 30,000 for the year. Seventeen ■memlbers of the House of Commons were now pledged to the League's proposals. Australian Ministers had, he said, assured ham of the immense advantage to the health of the boys derived through the Cadet movement. If Great Britain were to get her boys trained, compulsory service would follow naturally. It was infinitely regrettable that the proposal for military training, which was the one part of Lord Haldane's scheme which would be of immediate practical value, had. been dropped at the first breath of disapproval of those inaccurately called "the Peace Party." Mr W. B. Leyland, of New Zealand, was among the speakers at the Conference.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10275, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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