7 MAY 1910, Page 2

Sir Joseph Ward announced on Thursday that the New Zealand

Government had decided to adopt Lord Kitchener's recommendations. The new scheme would increase the age for compulsory military training to twenty-five years. In this way the peace establishment would consist of twenty thousand trained men, as well as nearly forty thousand cadets between twelve and eighteen and ten thousand recruits between eighteen and nineteen. The cost of internal defence is estimated at £400,000 a year.