DEFENCE ORGANISATION
(To the Editor.) Sir,—lt was with considerable alarm ( that I read in the columns of your issue of July 20 of the intention of the Government Jto reorganise the Defence Forces in New Zealand. It was hinted in that statement that the voluntary system had not proved entirely successful, and that some form of compulsory training might be instituted. I, in -ommon with many others, had hoped that, with the removal of compulsory military training, militarism in this country had died and been buried. Here we find it endeavouring to raise its head again. I trust that there will be a storm of protest at any increase in expenditure on military training, when there are many people unable to secure the bare necessaries of life. Surely any increase in this direction is incompatible with the attempts to reduce armaments, and I trust, that New Zealand will not, in no matter how small a way, show a desire to increase its military strength.—l am, etc.,
NATHAN K. SEDDON. A similar protest is made by A. C. Bar rington. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 21, 25 July 1933, Page 5
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