MILITARY TRAINING

Northern Advocate, 3 October 1930, Page 6

MILITARY TRAINING

SIR ANDREW RUSSELL’S VIEWS

(Per Press Association. —Copyright.! NELSON, This Day

In the course. -of his address at the reunion of the Returned .Soldiers' Association, Sir Andrew Russell, touching briefly nn the defence question, said every member of the R.S.A. bad flu; right, and duty to take an interest in blie defence of the country. They had already ’played their part, and would he the first to say the youth of the country should go through a certain amount of preparation. Peronally, he was doing his best and it was quite competent for any organisation to bring this matter before the people of New Zealand ami interest them as to the necessity of an. efficient system of defence. Military training had a certain educative value in bringing up young people, in that it involved lessons of discipline.

►Sir Andrew said he hoped the individual members of the association, which had always lent its weight to the defence of the country would not be hesitant when the time came to left their opinion be known.

N.Z. DEFENCE FORCE

GENERAL ORDER ISSUED

(CADRE BASIS ADOPTED,

(Per Press Association. —copyright.l WELLINGTON, This Day. General orders for the reorganisation of the New Zealand Military Forces, a,t the dictates of financial stringency, have been issued by Maj-or-General R. Young as a temporary measure. The Territorial Foreo is to reduced to a cadre, basis and the training of senior cadets will be com fined to secondary schools. The official order contains an appeal for the whole-hearted support of the officers and N.0.0.’s 'and ranks in maintaining the spirit of the past. The present divisional organisation will remain and its aim is to retain the means of providing a highly trained cadre of regular soldiers for mobilisation, peace training and administrative requirements. The sys tom will piovide for the training of 600 officers and 2000 warrant officers and N.C.O.’s of the Territorial Force, while 300 offieors and 16,000 secondary school cadets will also be on the training list.