"NO HESITATION."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 12

"NO HESITATION."

COMPULSORY TRAINING. NUMB BR REQUIRED 40,000. (Br Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this tiny. "When the Opposition heroine the 'Government we will put universal military training on, the .statute Book; I have no hesitation in making that statement," said Mr. D. 0. Kidd (National, Waltaki) in the House of Representative* yesterday when referring to the question of defence. He quoted the remarks made by Dr. D. O. McMillan (Government, Dunedin West) on the previous day, which were to the effect that when he (Dr. McMillan) had joined up under the compulsory scheme of a former Government hie job on one occasion when in camp had been to run round from thistle to thistle with a kerosene tin pretending thnt he was a machine gun"; he got tired of the task n n<l pitrn(led sick next day. Dr. McMiUnn: Sick of the tomfoolery. Mr. Kidd snld that Dr. McMillan bnd lii'cti "»wiiij.'iiijf tlie lend.' . The men who wore (•nlifttpil under the universal •ervlpH scheme lind In-eii t ruined liy men brought from mid (ndln— men who Iniil i,,.,.|i rp«|»oi V Hlhli. for training >ew Kenlaiitl soldier* |W the Kxi.edi-tlinini-y Pnroe, whir], hud j-iven such a Him *emnn« of Itself i|nrln» the flrcat «ar H,. dirt not think- that HI.OOI) men would he sufficient for the defence of >ew Zenliuul. *S\ W if''' Ly ° n Woverninei.t, WaiteAr. Lyon: That means you will need a tjtiarter of a million for New Zealand.