THE TERRITORIALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11883, 20 January 1914, Page 6

THE TERRITORIALS.

LARGE CAMPS TO BE HELD.

(By Telegraph. — Press Association.) WELLINGTON", Monday. As is now generally known, the Defence authorities are planning to hold in the ordinary course of progressive training large Territorial camps at which as many as possible of tho men may be assembled at one time during the* visit of General Sir lan Hamilton (Inspector-General of His Majesty's Overseas Forces). Employers are naturally wondering how these will affect them with regard to their employees, a subject on which General Godlcy threw .some light in conversation with a reporter to-day. it was hoped, he said, to get as many men as possible of all branches of the service into camp together, not only in order that the In-spector-General of the Overseas Forces might see them, but to make it possible to obtain the obvious military neeossity of accustoming them in the use of all three arms —horso, foot, and artillery— to work together iv co-operation. The military authorities quite understand that it might not be possible iv the interests of employers to insist upon every man attending this first camp, and they did not therefore expect an attendance of 100 per cent. They did, however, expect and trust that employers would let as large a percentage of their men as possible go to the first camp ami to keep back only the barest possible minimum with which they could carry on their business. For these an alternative or casual camp would be arranged. The training at this camp would be of necessity only second-rate and of inferior value to that given in the first camp, as the proper regimental ■organisation could obviously only exist •during the first statutory camp, and the regimental officers could attend it only.