DEFENCE TRAINING
ADVOCACY OF COMPULSION. BUSINESS MEN’S VIEWS. URGENCY OF THE MATTER. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. In a lengthy discussion by the Chamber of Commerce on defence, all the speaker's were more or less decided in their opinion that some form of compulsory training was necessary. Resolutions were passed affirming the urgency of the matter, the Chamber pledging itself to support loyally any measures to make defence more secure, even if such involved compulsory training. Mr W. R. Chapman, vice-president of the junior chamber which had carried a resolution unanimously that compulsory training was essential and that an Imperial Army officer be given command } free from Government supervision or interference, stated that there was no doubt the army of defence had deteriorated and the Government appeared to have lost interest. Probably 50 per cent, of the force would not pass a physical test, and 25 per cent, would not be fit for a rank righer than sergeant, while the remaining percentage would make only mediocre privates. A suggestion' by Mr A. C. Cameron was that there should be three months’ unbroken training in the first year and six weeks in the second and third, the training to be completed between the ages of 17 and 21.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 194, 18 May 1938, Page 6
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