MILITARY TRAINING.
DEFENCE BILL INTRODUCED.
A QUIET RECEPTION. NO DEBATE ON FIRST READING. [by telegraph.—special reporter.] WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Defence (Temporary) Amendment Bill was read a first time in the House of Representatives to-day. The object of tho bill is to give statutory effect to the Government's decision to suspend until August-1, 1931, the provisions of tho Defence Act relating to compulsory military training and to mako provision for tho recognition, during tho period of suspension, of voluntary organisations formed for purposes of military training. The Governor-General may, bv Order-in-Council, make regulations for the training and control of such voluntary organisations. In view of tho unusual secrecy with which compulsory training had been suspended, it was expected that the Minister of Defence, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, would have been questioned on tho bill when lie Introduced it to-day, but thoughts wero evidently centred on the resumption of tho customs tariff debate and the first reading was accorded without comment. However, a vigorous debate can be anticipated on the second reading.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20642, 14 August 1930, Page 12
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