MILITARY SERVICE.
VIEWS OF ME JUSTICE DENNISTON,
[Uniied Pbess Assooiaxton.]
. AUCKLAND, Tuesday, bpeaking to-day on the subiect of compulsory military service Mr Justice Uemston said it seemed to him that our obvious duty was to prepare ourselves as a community to defend ourse yes on land. With our small popuation, this could- only be donTC some such organisation as that which esZr m JmZ?rt'. WeahoJdendeavour to make training in arms nnf °™l\? t *?tr the H^£ ea^ , vs * 1] tmt Pa^ of its essence. If oven mi™ 11 &$ ? f thft €tter Sy of ouryZ Za ,Whl , c . h fonn d te Outlet in |a^f ™JT m J? es !ess commendable forms, could be diverted to acquiring skill in the use and practice of arms, and a certain amount of drill and discipline, we snould in time create something of the reeling of the Swiss Republic, in which a sense of the paramount obligation to defend one's conntry seemed part of the very abre of its people. "If," ho concluded, "we allow ouraelves to remain in our present supine 6elf-oontentment, I fear we shall some day have a Tuda awakening, 's ' '" — *
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 December 1907, Page 2
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