NEW ZEALAND'S FORCES.
GENERAL SIR lAN HAMILTON'S REPORT. "MATERIAL SECOND TO NONE IN THE WORLD." [Pib Prem Association.] Wellington, June 22. General Sir lan Hamilton has presented his report of his inspection of New Zealand forces. Summing up the position, he said:—"The army of today puts its best into its work. It is well equipped and well armed. The human material is second to none in the world, and it suffers as a fighting machine only from want of field work and want of an ingrained habit of discipline. The iirst of these can never under the conditions of a citizen army be quite made good, except by dint of Avar, or by a period of embodiment made under stress of imminent peril. The second can and will be made good. Well-trained recruits will come on, especially,when .captains are made entirely responsible for the instruction of their own trained men."
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 52, 23 June 1914, Page 6
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