COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2516, 1 June 1909, Page 5

COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

ME. McNAB’S MISSION

(Per Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, MAY 31. Mr. R. McNab, speaking to a reporter on Saturday, said he was much gratified with his reception in the South Island, where the military training proposals were enthusiastically received. The best meetings of the whole campaign were those held in Christchurch and Ashburton. The North Island people took greater interest in his indictment of the volunteer system. Ihe South Island is more interested in remarks on reconstruction. Thus he inferred that tlie people in the south were in advance of those in the North on the same question. Tlie South was apparently prepared to admit that tlie volunteer system, had failed, and desired to know the best system to supervene it. Mr. McNab lias still a few North Island towns to visit. ADDRESS AT DANNEVIRKE. DANNEVIIIKE, May 31. Mr McNab addressed a crowded audience here to-night on universal military training. He spoke on lines similar to thoses of his previous addresses. The audience was very enthusiastic, and a motion was carried unanimously “That, notwithstanding the enthusiasm of the volunteers, the present system docs not provide adequate means of defence. This meeting theieroie asks the Government to introduce a system of universal military training for our young men.” An amendment, adding tlie words “naval as well as military training,” was Mso, carried. Patriotic songs were sung with great gusto by the audience.