TERRITORIAL RESERVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1938, Page 4

TERRITORIAL RESERVE

NEW DEVELOPMENT OUTLINED BY MINISTER MEN GETTING VOCATIONAL TRAINING (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The development of. the special Territorial Reserve was outlined by the Minister of Defence, the Hon F. Jones, during the consideration of the Army Estimates in the House' of Representatives last night. “I think what is being done with regard to the special reserve should be recognised,” said the Minister. “Young men who would otherwise be unemployed are given periods of concentrated training for defence purposes and at the same time are given vocational training to fit them for civilian occupations “Quite recently a committee has been set up consisting of representatives of the Labour Department, the railway workshops, the technical colleges, and the army, and its duty is to go into the question of vocational training. Many of these young men in the special reserve join the permanent forces, but others are being fitted for places in private industry. Welders are wanted in this country, and so are carpenters, and our aim is to give the men preliminary training in the initial steps and then place them in work as trainees. That is far better than turning them into labourers. The scheme as a whole has proved a pronounced success.”