MILITARY TRAINING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 115, 7 February 1908, Page 3

MILITARY TRAINING.

. DISCUSSION' BY. AUCKLAND V ; : i EDUCATION: ,• BOARD. ' . (hi TBLIOBArH—BriCIAL;>,COERESPOHDIirr.) j . ■'' ;• lAuflkland,. liebruary i6.".v ./.-Tlie;. question vof:' the -continuance.', of • .the military.; training, of mombers, of/school-ciidct corps-, after they leav6;' ; school came ■ beforo the.Bqard .of Educatioti.yestecday. .A short time Boa'rd - wroto ; to' thoi Minister, for- Defence drawing for the f extension -; of • the 'military education -.of•boyV > aftorVloftving< schooljVotlierwise,, it . was out, -tho i services!': of many .:,boysjpltld s ; beilost. t;o! the' VoausoV of volunteering. .iJn -a--,reply - from'-the: Mihistdr for V Defence,;:which . Was; read at; yesterday,!s .taeeting,;;.the Board "tfas.-informed !:that tho matter .would-be-consid'eretl.atithe'nMt raceta.t'i the •. sanje-rtiine i'tb'afc' !,at J present - boys • on lcaving' : '.school, might.'.cnrol thernselY.es as mombere.«f (defence. cadpt,;c6rps,', the : ageVfor which : js fixed at from thirteen to seventeen years, - ' and ; that,,th'oy, could, ■ on reach'iii'g . tlie age 'transferredTtd'adult volunteer-corp^.'V ?■;'■.' • — . Mr. C. i J. Parr said i that. it. - was : apity fonthe. country :tbat the military training of boys; was /.not\-'contihued: .they left school..,Ylt'cSeemed T to!'bfe- a\ waste'-of' gocid material.;; The .!fact ; !desired;; join-.defence' 'corps' was ;no't-sufficient. /Something' more''than , a .voluntary system was required. when, thejr left school did not know, sufficient' to'.understand - the impdrknee -'of .tho 'subject. "They ;.require<i 'to be '/uitaOT.; discipline -•'. 'ftnSi: dinnpingidn;' * The work'- sho'uld ; be regard- not merely .as -a ! pleasure,',but• also :a'B : :n^.(luty.'7^ : Hev : m6ved that a Bdaird. wait'upon the, Prime Ministerin. cbnhwtipiiwith ' tho matter-.oh his: coniirig;'yisi.t; - / : ! : whether: the Board; ;was prepared ? . to .advocate, ' what amounted ■: tor ii'. system:',-of ; con-' script-ion. f .:;!'V"': ' was .that the : continuation;. oftho .trainihg; should - libt be 'left' ta'.thb ib6y.s' i '-V;;,' .'.••• •• ■ "llh'.'.Stallwortliy:Y'i^ou-th atfchore: shpultl be-cdriipiilsor'ywrqiiincnt'?.."'-".! I Mr.' Prtrr :. That 'isa; matterfor,;.the 'Defence -Dopa-rtraent/. ,^,y-y\'v ; The 'Cliair'ni'an ,'(Mr'. L.' '. Ji IBagnall) said th'tttl wliat to; be' method of Organisation..for\Hho '-b'oy,s !ifter school. v ; rv.:;