Military Training
Sir, —How right the Dominion president of the Returned Services’ Association is to advocate a continuance of compulsory military training. The armed forces are always money for jam to any Government bent on economy for reasons of political expediency; and what could be simpler than to abolish with a stroke of the pen a system of compulsory service that is so lacking in universal appeal—except on the grounds of commonsense and clear necessity? Apart from any other consideration, one has only to compare the appearance and demeanour of the young men under training at Burnham with that of the unkempt, slouching creatures that foregather in milk-bars and at street corners in Christchurch, to draw one pretty obvious conclusion. —Yours, etc.. ILAM. March 5, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28528, 6 March 1958, Page 3
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