LORD KITCHENER’S REPORT.
MR. MASSEY PESSIMISTIC. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, March 10. Air. Massey, interviewed in regard to Lord Kitchener's report, said lie thought it would be a serious mistake to go beyond the expenditure contemplated by the Defence Act or to increase- the ago for military training. Sir Joseph Ward estimated the cost of Lord Kitchener’s scheme at £470,000 per annum. To that there had to be added £IOO,OOO as subsidy to the Imperial navy and interest and sinking fund in connection with the Dreadnought, estimated at £150,000, sa}* £750,000 in all. He did not think the Dominion could afford that at present. As to the proposal lor increasing the age for military training, Air. Alassey said: “I am sure this would also be, a mistake. Alany people do net look favorably on compulsory training up to 21, but if we increase the. age to 26 as suggested, there will be a dislocation of certain industries, and consequently trouble, and 1 for one cannot agree to the. proposal.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2757, 11 March 1910, Page 5
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169LORD KITCHENER’S REPORT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2757, 11 March 1910, Page 5
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