COMPULSORY TRAINING.
THE PRELIMINARY STEP. TRAINING OP CADETS. LONDON, June 20. At the annual meeting of the National Service League LoTd Roberts, the president, stated that the membership was now 91,142, an increase of 30,000 for the year. Seventeen members of the House of Commons were now pledged to the League's, proposals. The Australian Minister now on a visic to England had, he said, assured him that immense advantage to the health of boys had resulted through the establishment of cadet corps. If Britain got her boys trained, compulsory service would follow naturally. It was infinitely regrettable that the military training of boys, which was the one part of Lord Haldane"s scheme 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 Auckland (president of the National Defence League of New Zealand), was amongst the speakers. AMENDING THE VETO BILL
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 154, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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