N.Z. MILITARY
THE FORCE REQUIRED. (Per Press Association—-Copyright "WELLINGTON, September 21. “We don't want a large force, we want between 8000 and 9000 altogether, but wo want good,, strong, healthy young chaps who arc likely to make leaders in the future, because If war comes you get all kinds of men, but it’s leaders that von want most.and that is the basic principle, on which 1 am trying to reorganise and mechanise the forces ol this country,” said Major-General J. E. Duigan, speaking in Wellington. Cavalry in the British Army was being mechanised, and there were very few horses left. Morses were gradually being done away with—they were very vulnerable to gas. Mechanisation was going ahead, and lie hoped that in another six months artillery 011 rubber tyres would bo doing 40 miles an hour. The day of the army horse was dying, and dying quickly. Co-operation of everybody was needed if much progress was to be made. Schools of instruction had been formed,, and the response had been excellent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1937, Page 6
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