MR REID ON DEFENCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 59, 5 March 1909, Page 7

MR REID ON DEFENCE.

SUBSTITUTE FOR A NAVY,

MORE EFFICIENT LAND DE-

FENCE,

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

SYDNEY, March 3. Mr G- H. Reid, speaking on defence, ridiculed the Australian Navy project. He declared that there was no necessity for compulsory military training. His policy for the next ten years would be to make the fovts, garrisons and officers efficient. He would rather spend £80,000 on a military college than on a torpedo-des-troyer. He would have a zealous cadet movement and a universal system of school drill, and the establishment of factories for the manufacture of small arms and ammunition.