UNIVERSAL TRAINING.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 280, 31 May 1909, Page 5

UNIVERSAL TRAINING.

> . ■ „_ — _ — , — MR McN^AB IN THE SOUTH ISLAND. [PRESS ASSOCIATION. J CHRISTCHURCH, to-day. - Mr McNab, speaking- to a reporter ■ on Saturday, said he was much gratified by his v reception in the South Island, Avhere his military training proposals had been enthusiastically 1 received. The best meetings iii the whole campaign were at Christchurch ' and Ashburton: The North Island people took greater interest in his indictment of the volunteer system. I The- Sovijth .• Island, wop more inter- . ested in 'his remarks: on reconstrnc- ' tion, and he thus inferred the people of the. South were in advance of those in the North, on this question. ! Tho South apparently ..were- prepared . to admit the .Volunteer system. had failed, and desired to know the best system x to supersede it Mr . McNa.-b--.has still . a fow North Island towns to .visit.