THE MILITARY

Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 447, 1 October 1919, Page 5

THE MILITARY

.Mr. 11. iScmple, M.P., hardly got th» information he was in search of when he asked for a return giving tho number <'f permane&t military officers engaged throughout Now Zealand. 'Th_ information given by .Sir James Allen, the .Minister of Defence, was that there were 91- including 59 cf the stall' corps. But there are quite a large number of additional officers- for the present classed as temporarily engaged, the. bulk cf whom will de shortly employed in a new system of territorial train i.-g; it would b e as well for Mr. .Scmple i..r, ask for some information under this heading. The return which he has already obtained creates quite a false impression as to wimt lh e strength of the military permanent staff is to bein the immediate future.