THE DEFENCE FORCES.
OFFICERS IN ENGLAND. (Pek Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 4. Five New Zealand Defence Department officials arc now in England obtaining further training, namely, Colonel Davies, who has been attached to the War Office, and will return here in July; and Captains White, Grant, Robinson and Burton. The last two have completed their musketry course at Hythe. Their two colleagues go up for the same course in May, and all are due back in New Zealand in August. One of them will probably bo given charge of the new Musketry School it is intended to establish. The re-organised Defence Department involves the abolition of peripatetic instructors in artillery and gunnery. As far as. possible military education will be brought to the door of officers throughout the Dominion, and, as suggested by Lord Kitchener, there will be an addition to the number of permanent instructors, one being attached to each corps. In the higher branches of military education, however, instructors will' be centralised, though not entirely in Wellington. Captain Duigan, one of the New Zealand officers with English training, will have charge of the signalling and engineering branches.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9182, 5 April 1910, Page 7
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