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Proposed System of Training; 88. The system of training, therefore, which, in accordance with well-defined principles. I submit as suitable to the requirements of the Citizen Forces of New Zealand may he summarized as follows : —

Affiliation of Cadets to Units. 89. It is in the interest not only of the Army but the nation that the attention and sympathy of Territorial officers should extend beyond the Force in being to the New Zealand soldiers of the future. So I trust that every effort will be made to draw the Cadets closer to the Territorial Force, and to that end I recommend the affiliation of Cadet companies to Territorial units ; the use by Cadets of regimental badges and numbers, and the notification of Cadet officers' names on the same page of the Army List as that which contains the names of the officers of their affiliated Territorial unit. Such a connection will, it is my firm belief, enure, eventually, at least as much to the benefit of the Territorial Force generally as of the Cadets themselves. Developments necessary. 90. 1 have here advocated nothing startling or miraculous. New Zealand is not advised to travel to distant Abana and Pharpar, but only to give its own familiar Jordan a fair trial. For three years past the root principles and the methods now recommended have been recognized, more or less, and have also been more or less applied. Set the seal of thoroughness on a great work already at least half finished ; that is the crux of my advice. Beyond question the-training of the Territorial Force has now reached a stage of development which will admit of the detachment of the instructional staff from units being carried one step further. Beyond question regimental officers will soon be capable of running their own show with much less adventitious aid from regular Adjutants and sergeants-major than they have hitherto enjoyed. For routine work during camp training, and in the field, these regular assistants may still be indispensable, but at other times the best part of their work could quite adequately be performed by assistant adjutants and by permanent quartermaster-sergeants of units. For, in future, unit commanders will neither have responsibility for the training of recruits nor, under the proposals in Section IV, will they henceforth be burdened with a mass of office-work. I recommend, therefore, that it should be within the power of District Commanders to decide to what extent the services of any member of the permanent instructional staff should at various periods of the year be placed at the disposal of the unit commanders. Otherwise they should be regarded as being normally under the orders of the Area Commanders. Effect oj such Developments. 91. The greater part of the time of all permanent instructors, both officers and non-commissioned officers, should thus be made available for work under the Area Commander either for the training of Cadets, Territorial recruits, General Training Section, or of Reservists. Such work should be arranged strictly on a localized basis. Non-commissioned officers should have allotted to them well-defined sub-areas to work over, and officer instructors should supervise the work of a group of two or three

\\ hore Home Training is \\ here Home Training i> ,, .,, . ,, .,, 8 .. vi Responsible Authority. Iiossible. not practicable. ' * Cadet training .. Cadet drills as at present Concentrated training in A tea Commander. camp or otherwise for fourteen days* Recruit training .. Statutory drills and train- Up to twenty days in Area Commander. ing in first year of ser- camp in first year of vice until the recruit service until the recruit is passed fit for the is passed fit for the ranks ranks* Training of the General As laid down by law Area Commander. Training Section and of Reservists Individual instruction ('lasses arranged locally District]Commander. of officers and noncommissioned officers Squadron and company Eight whole-day parades, Eight days'concentrated Squadron or company training or drills equivalent training, including nms- Commander. thereto, including mus- ketry course* ketry course Regimental and bat- Three whole-day parades, Three days in camp . . Unit Commander, talion training or drills equivalent thereto Brigade and divisional Nine days* .. .. Nine days* .. .. Brigade'and divisional training Commanders. * Includes days of arrival and departure.