The 38th and 41st Reinforcements at the Segregation Camp, Trentham.

Otago Witness, Issue 3353, 19 June 1918, Page 36 (Supplement)

The 38th and 41st Reinforcements at the Segregation Camp, Trentham.

A KHAKI COLLEGE.

LONDON, April 16. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brigadier-general Richardson has taken hand very vigorously the establishment an education system for the N.Z.E.F. i service. The unexpected protraction o; e war has raised in a serious form the

I problem of the interruption of the men's | education, especially in the case of young l men who in normal times would now be proceeding to a university. For more than ; a year past the command in the United Kingdom has been organising different | branches of educational work. Up to the ' present these have been more or less in I | the way of handicrafts—basket work, engiI neering. carpentry, and so on —and a certain I

amount of office education. But the matter has now been taken a good deal farther, and provision is being made for a college course as comprehensive as possible, having due regard to the exigencies of the service. Captain J. R. Kirk, of the Wellington j Regiment, who has taken a great interest I in the subject, has been appointed by I General Richardson to be Director of Edu-

cation, and is at present drawing up his scheme for the "khaki college." A good deal of information has been obtained from the Canadian authorities, from the Royal Colonial Institute, and other sources, and ! it is hoped within a very short time to have ! a full staff of instructors appointed, so that the classes can commence in the different camps as soon as possible. Commercial I education and arts will have a prominent

place, but General Richardson is especially desirous of giving the scheme a bias towards training for citizenship, consequently economics and public administration will be carefully developed. Captain Kirk practised before the war as a barrister in Gisborne. He has been at the front for some time with his battalion, and was lately in charge of Convalescent Detailsat the base camp at Etaples.