OUR CADETS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 458, 17 March 1909, Page 9

OUR CADETS.

M^'lT 1 w A th & Kat regret that I learn * I struck off tho programmo of the ami nil , Wham meeting Tho volunteers andTr flo clubs arc provided with numerous matchos S and competitions every voir -it T<wi |«nd other centres. Tno ffisf I whom Now Zealand in tho future must look for her defence, have now no match"on the 9 Trontham programmo at all. This is cor • tamly unfair, and is not onrounurW £ young shot, In Erent I oro woll looked after at tho MisC \J~I- 7 by Lord Roberts, who always advocated training of young shots. "locates tlio f Tho cadets do as much, if not moro drill 8 than tho volunteers, but at tho 'TSwk A meeting tho cadets are eiitirolv iS£T Hopin E th.i tho Monaco'auSSritirti take, some steps m tins matter and not lea c our cadets in tho cold,—l am, otc., March IG. SYMPATHISER, n .[Tho original intention was that if suffi h wont inducement offered a cadot "Hislcv" * would bo held on Saturday, March 13-tho V day following the king's Prize match-but G as there wcro no indications that other "n----tries than thoso from tho Wellington College „ mid. tho Si..Patrick's Co lego (Sidet Com! "; panics would bo forthcoming, tho cadot con - ™ petition would have simply resolved itself 8: into a duel between these two colleges •,. contest ixartakmg of nothiniT of tho rcpresen-' fif tativo character of tho mooting. Tho "Cadet 8s Bisley" idea is an excollont one, but anv 8< movement in that direction must rely for Us 8« success in tho interest taken by the scaools 8s thomseJve3.J li