TERRITORIAL TRAINING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 224, 20 September 1915, Page 2

TERRITORIAL TRAINING.

t i>r 1 α-k dki idkd. il'.v Tr|r E r.ii-ti i'«u furrecpon.leot.. II \MILTON, this day." Mr HauHMl. -\1 . lod.iv derided ft novel point under the l)efpn«. A.-t relalive io compulsion i>ll Territorial* to 1 attend t r.i.ninjr .amps after reaching the a-e of J.Y A man mimed Bruce wan iihiirjieil uit'i Imvitiß laih-d to render j [mtkoii.il senile 11> not att.-udin.' the annual camp. j Defendant . aimed eveniptiou nn the an. 1111, In mat lip aitam-.l the nar ~( _>.1 I prior to the en.l of (1... lu-t Territorial yi-nr. DefeiidaiK was das.-cl for (liat and the year pri-<-p.liii« :i- a noneiTicient. and Iml not 1,,-eii furmally I raiwferreil jto the r rv<*. The ,|iie'stion for liin U>r-hi|i to de, id- vv.is whellier defend. ant automnti.allv erase,| to 1«- liiihlp f. r ! J trniiiinir nn attaining the ,i_"e ~f i"j. Ac j i-orilina to the \.| as it ori(iin«lly stood! |a Tcrritoinl ,-law-ed as non■eiTi.-icnt wan j jliahle for hjii-eial c\lra training in the] sin-.ee,iiii;; year. All amending section -t.K.» Ihat'every memher of the Terri torial Force, shall on attaining the ai;e of _'.-. he drafted in the prescribed man--1 ncr into the reserve. j Mi- Worship's opinion was that tlie ,]pjfemlant mn-t he treated as though I formally .Irafted into the reserve, ami was therefore not required .tn attend I camps. Thp information was dismissed. The eaxp i- regarded as a test by thp| Defence Department. I _______