UNIVERSAL TRAINING.
Sir,—" Anti-serf" makes a great song' in your columns about our military training, and tries to compare it with the conscription of the Continent. Ho is perhaps unaware that there is a considerable tliilerence between drilling once a week and serving three or four years in a : barracks, under strict military discipline! tlio whole time. Our friend "Anti-serf" j sings with joy of the freedom he enjoys.! and is yet evidently unprepared to give up 1 one night a week "to retain that freedom. ! I quite agree with him that New Zealandere j would fight for their country in time • of peril, but of what use is an untrained rabble (for that is all the force would be) against a trained l'oe? I myself am a territorial, and am proud of the fact. Although my uniform does not fit exactly, yet it is the King s, and, ; remembering that, lam proud to wear it. N.C.O. j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15613, 20 May 1914, Page 11
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