THE DEFENCE QUESTION
Mr Massey, in touching on the defence question, said that he had supported tho Act of last year, but if it was to be successful, the administration of the Defence Department must be such as to inspire public confidence. The Act must bo administered with tact, common sense, and ability. Hβ believed that Lord Kitchener had suggested, not that the age of compulsory training shonld be extended in regard to all male adults to the age of 25 (aa had been- stated), but that it should stop, at the age of 18, and that between that age and 25 they should go on with one-third of the number. If they took the entire- adult male population between those ages they would have f> force of about sixty thousand, but Lord Kitchener apparently did not believe this was necessary, and considered that a well-trained force of twenty thousand was preferable to an indifferently trained force of sixty thousand. this opinion he (the speaker) agreed. (Applause).
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13742, 25 May 1910, Page 7
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