DEMOCRATIC ARMY

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 16, 29 March 1940, Page 4

DEMOCRATIC ARMY

Men From All Ca ||j As Officers ' PRINCIPLE OF SEijJ If the varying IJrofesi . j of those men 11, the a(lv J mg company at the Army s' Instruction, Trentham, are J ’ the New Zealand Army is lea world in the ,practical demo! of the democratic principlem officers. . There are 136 nJ company chosen by couiiuaij cers from all units purely®? I of their personality and general and military. Looking! a list of their occupations in found journalists, clerks, ffl( r watersiders, stock agents, arft I ing engineers, travellers, j t company managers, bank offij t servants, papermakers, printer.' tors, accountants, cheeseniakej tects, teachers, farmers, ling bachelor of engineering, and a of Parliament. The aim i i these num is to give . everji ' joins up a chance on his meijJ There are All Blacks am J' Bullock-Douglas and PepptT l Boot, the athlete, BainbriiM 440 yards champion (19311 many others who have beenm in all branches of sport. The of Parliament is A. G. Hultqii of Plenty.

Not all of these 136 men may.l for just as the equal opportune ci pie is practised in selectin’i train, so also is that of not sioning any man, whoever be iii civil life, who does not m grade in leadership and the qualities essential in a man others will have to trust and Those who do not get .throng! turn to their units as n.c.o.’i possibly as privates.

Being in the advanced trail pany carries no privileges, disadvantages.. Whereas the file with the main body of 1 get nightly leave, there is noi embryo officer. His day si a.m. and finishes, at 9 p.m,’i time he has had a strenuos time to make bed the most place. He has to make his and with his fellow trainees! quarters tidy. Friday nights end leave is allowed. /

There are infantry, aril mils, machine-gunners, engi.l Service Corps, and division:! (mechanized) at the Ara? The course takes two moult' there is no passing-out exai The men are judged as they] tests being made continually,£ fitness for commissioned * judged on their general I throughout the course.

Nights are occupied with, ’ and a feature is that stndt picked at random to give i lecture! to fellow-trainees < ' military matter that has 4 their attention during the ft Those who are commission#'

posted back to the arm of tit from which they came. TM second lieutenants, and a gr® will be made to them to PJ ir ® forms and such necessary as is-not issued free. .This# substantial sum. but is H quate. | Captain A. H. L. Sugden,is in charge of the Ar®/j There is also a large nun “£ l [ men in training at the Cent School of Instruction, under * Gaskill, as officers ■ commissioned officers f Ol | echelon. I