STAFF TRAINING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19759, 13 October 1938, Page 6

STAFF TRAINING

TERRITORIAL OFFICERS NEW BRITISH SCHEME CORRESPONDENCE COURSE COMPLETION IN COLLEGE (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 11. The War Office announces details of wider opportunities for Territorial Army officers to be trained in staff duties. Fifty captains, or senior lieutenants will be trained annually to till staff appointments in the event of mobilisation. The scheme has been evolved with due regard to the fact that Territorial Army officers.,, being engaged in civil occupations, cannot easily in any number take up residence at the Staff College. It, therefore, has been arranged to train these officers in the theoretical side of staff work in their own homes by a kind of postal course, details of which are given in the War Office statement.

After the theoretical side has been mastered in this way there will be a second part consisting of a practical course, lasting for a fortnight, to be held at the Staff College itself during August. On the conclusion of this, officers attending will be placed as having qualified or otherwise. The course will commence in November. It is stated that the Army Council hopes that the standard of military knowledge and efficiency in the Territorial Army will be considerably improved as a consequence of the arrangement announced.