MILITARY TRAINING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1941, Page 6

MILITARY TRAINING

POSITION OF FARMERS MINISTER REPLIES TO UNION. i WINTER TERRITORIAL CAMUS IMPRACTICABLE. < By Telegraph — Press .Atwciciiion. < WELLINGTON. This Day. The diflicuiues in lhe way of arrang-! • ing for men engaged in farming to un- i dergo their three months’ Territorial' training in winter arc referred to by; the Minister for Defence, Mr F. Jones, • in his reply to a resolution forwarded ; j him by the Dominion Executive of the; | Farmers' Union. ! Winter camps, says the Minister, are ! I scarcely practicable, in that the wea-j j titer would interfere with training.and ; [ to get the same results as obtain un- [ ; der present arrangements a much lon-i I ger period would be required. Nomin- j ation by lhe trainees of the period; [most suitable to undertake their train-. I ing definitely is not workable, for the; i position would arise’of trainees nomin- [ ating different times for training, with! < a consequent lack of eo-ordination in - ! training. It is pointed out also that th.e (success of the training scheme must! ! largely depend on the maintenance of | some form of military discipline and [control which would obviously be lost I were the men allowed to please them-J ; solves as to when and how they at- ’ • tended camps. The Minister also points out that far- ! : mors' representations are met as far as. , possible.