MILITARY" TRAINING FORT AS DETENTION PLACES.
tHy Telegraph. — Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Hon. Mr. Rhode.-* (Acting Minister of Defence), who returned to-day from a southern visit, when he took the opportunity of seeing tho Canterbury and Westland regiments in training at Yaldhurst, informed your representative that he noticed a considerable improvement in the steadiness of the march past this year. Though many of the men hud not long put on uniform, the methods of training, he said, have proved adequate, and the system generally is working well, the percentage of defaulters not being hifh.
Questioned regarding the system of military detention as punishment for defaulters, the minister said that it was •being carried out in Otago. one of the forts at the Heads .being utilised, while at Ohristchurch. probably Fort .TerVois, where there are a few permanent-force men, would he made the detention barracks. One of the harbour forts in Auckland could be similarly used if necessary.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 75, 29 March 1913, Page 10
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