COMPULSORY TRAINING.
A VETERAN'S OPIHIOH. (To the Editor.) As an ex-regimental sergeant-inai» * warrant officer who had eight *** r service in the Boer War 6 and[«L S& War, I should like to say a fewVml H?* compulsory military training I *wn» *** with "Soldier's Mother" thai; «2js* military training should end. It l *l its purpose and is of no use as a iL?** 1 * defence. It is waste of pnblic erm-T*" , ** blot on New Zealand. If a defence force, it should be an nn-tnJ!*" , force, which should be in ever* fA-** town, ready to take tfce air at*a m *""* notice. I dealt with thousaiSu*"! men during the war. and I foundtW J* man who had enlisted of his own fn?»s was worth five of his conmulsorilT *J2 mates. We went to war to crush Prn!2* militarism, the German war machine foster it here in New Zealand. T*< ™•* 1914 MONS STAB R£JL
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 241, 12 October 1927, Page 6
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150COMPULSORY TRAINING. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 241, 12 October 1927, Page 6
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