THE KOWAI CAMP.
MAJOR HEAD'S OPINION
(Special to "The Colonist.")
Ghristchurch, April 27.
The territorials at the Kowai "camp* are working remarkably well. There is a hearty good feeling in the camp, and on all sides ie cannot but be recognised that this scheme lias done wonders with Canterbury's young men. Major-B. Head, of the Royal Welsh. Fusiliers, who has seen a great deal of active'service, and is at present attached to the New Zealand permanent staff, compares this camp very favourably with the Australian one which ha attended before coming to New ■ Zealand. He said that if the defence scheme is not interfered, with financially, or politically, or any other way, New Zealand will shortly have the finest fighting unit in the world. The young men take to it naturally, and he is convinced that when properly taught and trained, as they will be in a few years under the present system, they will be as efficient and valuable in active service as one could wish for.-
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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13455, 29 April 1914, Page 4
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168THE KOWAI CAMP. Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13455, 29 April 1914, Page 4
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