THE TERRITORIALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 120, 13 July 1911, Page 2

THE TERRITORIALS.

MEDICAL INSPECTION. THE FINAL ARRANGEMENTS MADE. Final arrangements for medical inspection in the area of winch Stratford is the centre have now eon completed and the work will he commenced in Stratford towirds the end of the week, Dr Carbery carrying out the inspection. All f> uv/ms registered will receive notice by post-card of the date and hour of examination. Owing to the number who will have to ho examined in Stratford the work will have to he spread over three days or more, and those tut hi 3 to examination are requested rot to piesent themselves for inspection at the Defence Office until they arc notified hy post-card. As all the smaller settlements ea t-not-he visited the Territorials in several of them will be' requested to attend at other centres for impaction. Following is a list showing the settlements from which Territorials will have to proceed to an examining centre :

Examining Settlement. Centre. Huiroa Douglas Kiore Douglas Mata Eltham Rotokare Eltham Lowgarth Mangatoki Matemateonga Manga mingi Omona Mangamingi Rowan Mahoe Waipnkn Midhirst Tariki Midhirst Tuna Midhirst Wharehuia Midhirst Awatnna East Riverlea Huiakama Strathmore Makahu Strathmore Te Wera Strathmore Taurakawa Tututawa Puniwhakau Tututawa Tahora Whangam omona Hurimoana Whangamomona Kohuratahi Whangam omona Following is a list of examining centres, with the number to be examined at eachCardiff ... 21 Douglas 19 Eltham 154 Kaponga 46 Mangatoki 43 Mangamingi ... 16 Mahoe 22 Midhirst ... ... 94 Ngairo 35 Pohoktlra 12 Rawhitiroa ... ... 7 - Rirerlea 20 Strathmore ... ... 25 Stratford ... ... 212 Te Roti ... 16 Toko ... ...I ... 46 Tututawa .A ... 19 Whangamomona ... 24 Total 831 , .no Cj v-hi■ ; VALUE OF THE CITIZEN AHMV. The Dunedin City Guards, now a company of the 4th Regiment, held their last social under the old title on Thursday evening last. The manciple guests among a distinguished company of ladies and gentleme; was General Sir Charles Burnett, K.C.8., K.C.V.0., who delivered a hue address in reply to the toast of "Army, Navy, and Territorials.” General Burnett, in replying to the toast, confined his remarks to the Imperial Territorial Army. He devoted himself to demonstrating how great a part this army must play in tire maintenance of peace and in the drama of war, should war come. The security of the Empire could only be ensured !y the patriotism and the personal? service of the citizens. (Applause.) If in trie time of danger the British nation put faith in the Army and Navy only, utterly disregarding the potentialities of the citizen soldiery, the Empire was oaying the maximum premium to secure a modicum of safety or no safety at all. The duty of the Navy n tune of war was to sweep the seas and keep the highways open, ‘so that the commerce and industry of the country might bo interfered with as little as possible, and so that foodstuffs might find their way into British ports without let. or hindrance. If England was going to. burden her navy with the double duty of sweeping the seas and guarding the shores, then he would say that the size of that navy would iiave to bo so great that its cost and upkeep would place the country on ■he brink (.'< h uncial rtin. F.vo n so the country would not be sal 1 for history showed that the strongest British fleet could not always keep a hostile fleet from slipping away and gaining its objective. England must have a strong, powerful fleet, a well-train-ed regular army, and a citizen army with which to reinforce the regular troops by which the shores might tie guarded. • For the only way in which an enemy •■mil strike a vital oh.w at the Umpire was by seizing London and dictating terms from there. Arid although such an attempt was risky while England held the seas, still it was not impossible. It was the only way to bring the Empire to her knees, and it. was ridiculous to suppose that schemes had not been worked out for such invasion, and were evm now rea'iy • r trial Humid rli? occasion ,iA necessity arise. And the only way tf bury -he bogey of inva-noi. was to have ready such a mobile and efficient territorial army as would make an enemy hesitate to land, even were the fleet evaded or disabled. Ho lid not want, because he was a solder to sec the whole Empire turned into a military camp for purposes of defence. Far from it. It was because he did not wish to see the nation emergo in a stniggledhoOdel,zw tion engage in a struggle unprepared and unorganised that he preached the doctrine of preparation. (Ap- ; plause.)