COMPULSORY DRILL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 December 1913, Page 4

COMPULSORY DRILL.

.The moral effect of compulsory drill on the rising generation is noted with satisfaction in the Australian police force. Officers in Melbourne, from the Chief Commissioner (Mr ~ Samsbury) downwards, when questioned as to the behaviour of lads, and youths since the Act came into force, slightly over two years ago, were most enthusiastic in their praise of the new system, states the Melbourne Age. Mr Sainsbury said that, the benefits derived from compulsory drill were so obvious that it was superfluous to state them. The trainees had less time for loitering about the streets and contracting evil habits, and the whole tendency of the drill was to make better* lads of them. .• Sergeant Stapleton, who has had lifelong experience of the rise and growth of the "push" nuisance, said he was convinced beyond all doubt that military training was a most powerful element in the suppression of larrikin: sm, and was producing a better type of youth mentally arid physically.! "The best thing ever introduced, " was x Sub-Inspector O'Dpnnell's tribute to the Defence Act, and he was quite at a loss to see why a single objection should be voiced against compulsory training.