COMPULSORY SERVICE.
VIEWS OF MR. JUSTICE DENNISTON. [BY TBLEGRArn.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Auckland, December 17. Speaking to-day on the subject of compulsory service, Mr. Justice Denniston said it seemed to luin that' our obvious duty was to prepare ourselves as a community to defend ourselves on land. With our small population this could only be done by some such organisation as that which -exists in Switzerland. We should endeavour to mako training iu arms not merely an episode in the life of each of us, but pa,rt of its esseneo. If oven a small part of the energy of our young men which found an outlet in games, and sometimes less commendablo forms, could he diverted to acquiring skill in the use and practice of arms, and n ccrtain amount of drill and discipline, we should in time create something of the feeling of the Swiss Republic, in which n sense of the paramount obligation to defend one's country seemed part of the very fibre"bf iis people. " If," he continued, "we allow oursnlves to remain in our present supine selfcontentment, I tear we shall some day havo a rudo' awakening."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 72, 18 December 1907, Page 8
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188COMPULSORY SERVICE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 72, 18 December 1907, Page 8
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