MILITARY TRAINING
COUNCIL FAVOURS COMPULSION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. In unequivocal terms, councillors iat a meeting of the Awatere County Council expressed the opinion that universal military training in New Zealand would be more beneficial to the male population of the Dominion than the scheme introduced under the i National Physical Fitness Campaign. Councillors expressed their views strongly, and all considered* that the same ideals as aimed at in the Fitness Campaign could be attained by military training. " A resolution embodying these views was passed unanimously and will be forwarded to the Minister of Defence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 13
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97MILITARY TRAINING Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 13
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