"LIBERATE THEM."

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1934, Page 5

"LIBERATE THEM."

SOLDIERS FOR CAMP.

APPEAL MADE TO EMPLOYERS

MECHANISED ARTILLERY.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

Speaking at the presentation of trophies to Wellington battery companies, Brigadier-General Sir William Sinclair Burgess, General Officer Commanding F.Z. Military Forces, said lie realised the difficulties under which some annual

camps had been carried on owing to the absence of many who were needed there. He felt it his duty to make a special appeal to those who had soldiers in their employ to liberate them for one week each year to attend annual camps, and also asked that employers should encourage men to join up.

Sometimes he was asked wliy New Zealand did not mechanise her artillery, and what was the good of being out of date, said Sir William. He had two answers to those questions. The first was that it would not be right, in view of present economic conditions, and the second was that there were many parts of New Zealand where it would not he practicable to use tractors for hauling guns. There were many places where horses could go, but where tractors could not.