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spite the violent attacks on the system 

 by conscriptionists like Lord Roberts, 

 the Territorials have proved far more 

 efficient than the old Volunteers. One 

 of Lord Roberts' criticisms of them was 

 that they had not enough training. 

 Actually they have more than our citizen 

 forces here, and the discipline is certainly 

 quite as good. Lord Haldane recently 

 expressed strong opposition to every 

 form of compulsory service. If intro- 

 duced in England an enormous number 

 of officers would have to be provided, 

 and they were not to be found. To en- 

 deavour to provide for every contin- 

 gency wovild mean national bankruptcy. 

 Australian experience will confirm him 

 in this. 



New Zealand Defence. 



Since his visit home, Colonel Allen, 

 N.Z. Minister of Defence, has been en- 

 gaged in preparing a Naval Bill, which 



provides for the local disposal of the 

 ^100,000 at present voted annually to 

 the British Navy. He pointed out that 

 his proposals were more Imperial than 

 are Australia's. New Zealand officers 

 and men were not limited in career, and 

 under the bill the New Zealand naval 

 force passed automatically under the 

 control of the British Government on 

 the outbreak of war. None of her ships 

 would be at the disposal of Australia. 

 These ships are apparently to be sub- 

 marines, destroyers and light cruisers. 

 The total cost is not to exceed ;^i 00,000 

 per annum. Sir Joseph Ward opposed 

 the Bill, pointmg out that no country 

 in the world had ever been able to keep 

 naval expenditure down when once it 

 went in for its own ships. For a young 

 country like New Zealand to attempt 

 to have its own navy was futile. The 

 Bill passed its secand reading by 31 to 

 21. 



TWO NOTABI.K AVIATORS. 

 Pegoud, who has been making such sensational upside-down tlii;lits. 

 man who first flew across the Knglish Channel. 



iTopical. 

 Bleriot, the 



