§ 62. Mr. GEORGE TERRELLasked whether the forty-eight hours a week training which recruits receive under the Regulations is to be interpreted as the maximum or minimum hours of training; and, if the former, whether, in view of the approach of winter and the conditions of discomfort at some of the camps, discretion will be given to officers commanding battalions to reduce the hours?
§ Mr. TENNANTThe forty-eight hours training weekly is neither a maximum nor a minimum. The syllabus in which the reference to this amount of training occurs is published as a guide, and commanding officers are not debarred from using their discretion, the exercise of which must, of course, be affected mainly by the necessity for training the troops to the standard of efficiency which will be demanded of them. I think general and other officers commanding may be trusted to take into account all relevant considerations.