School Cadets Course at Waiouru

Chronicle (Levin), 29 December 1949, Page 5

School Cadets Course at Waiouru

As a reward for their service in the New Zealand Cadet Corps, approximatelv 90 pnst-primary schoolboys, selected from the Cadet Corps roll of more than 25,500 will spend 11 davs on a special course in Waiouru Military Oiimp next month. The bovs will come from most of the post-primarv schools wliicli have a cadet unit and all will be returning to school next year, most of them as their school 's regimental sergeant-major or senior under officer. Tn accordance with a recommendation of the committee on school cadet training appointed bv the former Minister of Fefence (Mr .Tones) in Septemlier, 1948, it is proposed that. a similar course should be lield for senior cadet s in .Tanuarv everv year. It is hoped that, apart from being a reward for service, the course will ensure that senior eadets are trained on common lines and to the highest standards, that it will give them a fuller understanding of the Armv in New Zealand, and that it will assist them to take an increasing share of the responsibility for the training in thmr units. The eadets will assetnBle at Waiouru on January 18, and for the first seven davs will spend a substantial part of their time listening to lectures by Regular Force offieers and seeing some of the Armv's many instruetional films. Three-quarters of an honr will be spent each afternoon on an organised sport or plivsical training and a half a dav in the middle of the course will be given over to a sports meeting, The svllabus for the first part of the course will also inelude some drill and weapon training and a tractieal exereise. One of the last five days will be taken up with a rifle sliooting competition and another with visits to the Armv's School of Artillery, where the eadets wiU see a demonstration shoot and to the Armoured School, where they will see a demonstration by a troop of tanks on the move. The eadets will spend the last three days of the course camping on the, shores of Lake Taupo. One of the ob- j jects of this part of the course is to give the eadets practieal experlence in erecting and conducting a canvas camp, but there will also be time for some sight-seeing. Yisits to the Huka Falls. the Aritiatia Eapids, and to Wairakei are planned. Tlie course commandant will be Major D. A. Caughley, Director of the Eoyal New Zealand Armoured Corps, and the adjutant will be Captain D. M. Sweeney, G.S.O. III Cadets, of _Army Headquarters. Six offieers serving with the Cadet Corps have been selected for the course st'aff. The cadets attending from the Central Military District will be: — Jnnior Hnder Officer F. T. McTvor (Rongotai College), C.S.M. E. S. Eobieson (Wairarapa Colege), W.O.2 C. J. Marchant (Wanganui Collegiate School), W.O,2 M. T\. Johnston (Wanganui Technical College), E.S.M. J. Bardell (Taihape District High School), C.S.M. I. Wilde (Palmerston North Bovs' High School). C.S.M. B. F. Piper (Palmerston North Technical High School), Sergeant. Middleton (Feilding Agricultural High School), Sergeant C. Beer (Dannevirke District High, School),, StafE-Sergeant

, mmmmm — — — — m imiwiimm 1— f ^ T. Mataira ((risborne High School). W.O.2 B. Y. Ne.rr (New Plvmouth Boa*s ' High SchooD. W.O.2 Mather (Stratford Technical High School). and Sergeant Beauchamp (Hawera Technical High. School),