OUR JUNIOR CADETS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 979, 21 November 1910, Page 9

OUR JUNIOR CADETS.

OFFICERS' COMMISSIONS. COMPETITIONS TN MABKSMANSHIP. . Junior Cadet Orders, just published, include the following; announcements-.—". The appointment of 1\ E. Just, as a stair sergeant-instructor at .Wellington, has been approved. The following probationary appointments (six months) to similar positions at the centres named have also teen approved:—S. Jloore, A. U. Barlow (Auckland)'; J. Kennedy (Christchurch); G. ■ l>. Bishop, J. Cummings (Dunedin); J. M'Donald (Nelson); J. P.. Koutledge, S. Mellows (Wellington). In order to interfere as little as possible with the interior economy of the schools, correspondent addressed . from Cadet Headquarters to officers commanding individual units, and from battalion commanders to their company officers,. will be sent in future through the headmasters of tlio schools concerned. Company commanders corresponding with Headquarters or their battalion commanders will submit such correspondence. to their headmasters before dispatching. Between headquarters and' battalion commanders, correspondence, as hitherto, will be of a direct nature. .

Tlio. Defence-Act, 1910, being now law, Uauso_ 165 of the Junior Cadet-Regula-tions has becorna iuoporative, and boys are not now .eligible to become junior scout cadets until tho beginning of the year m which they will be twelve years • i? B ? , ' . ys t ' n(ior twelve years of age will therefore not bo recognised as Junior and consequently will not bo entitled to uniforms or equipment of any kind.

Training Camps and Examinations. Officers, willing to attend an officers' camp of instruction to be held in tho four chief centres—Wellington, Auckland, Chnstehurch, Dunediri—arc invited to send, m-their names to cadet headquar-" ters. .Free railway and. .boat passages will bo arranged, also, tents .and rations will. be.supplied free of cost. The date suggested is tho last-week-in the Christ-, mas vacation, but suggestions from officers commanding battalions as 'to the date or dates most suitable for their respective; centres are" invited, to enable definite arrangements to.be made' for camps... • . ; 'In connection with the applications of officers of junior cadets for permission' to sit for examination for substantive commissions under the Central Board of Examination Regulations, it jv-jll be necessary in all such cases for candidates to make application through the Commandant of Junior Cadets, who will requisition for examination papers accordingly, rho examination of lieutenants will consist of:— '

(a) A paper on duties and discipline as set forth in tho King's Regulations, the Defenco Act, 1909,. with its amendments, the General Regulations of tho New Zealand Defence Forces, and the Junior Cadet Regulations. (b) A practical test. of. the ..candidate's fitness for command, ■ under -all circumstances; a • unit corresponding to that which ho would be entitled to take charge of upon obtaining substantial rank, tho test to include viva toco questions in the field, giving oonimands and explaining, m a clear and audiblo style, the exercise or manoeuvre to be carried out. ' (c) A. second paper on drills and musketry as prescribed in Infantry training aud Field Sevvico Regulations.- ■ Candidates for substantial commissions for ; the. rank of captain will be reciuired to explain, the formation and manoeuvre of a 'company-with the. battalion oii , : parade and in~tho- field;—; - . For. ; tho rank .of major .a, paper, will ,bo sot oil the subject of "Duties in' - the Field"—tactics, field , sketching, and, reconnaissance, command of a battalion under oil circumstances on parade and in tho. .field—and "Regimental Duties'and Interior Economy." The text books for this examination are "Infantry Training," "Field Service Regulations," and ".Manual of Field-skotching and Reconnaissance." . • • f Cadet Shooting. . The results of the shield competitions for 1909 are published ■ for general information. •■ Competing teams consisted of ten cadets, all of whom belonged to tho same company or unit: South' Island Government Challenge Shield: Geraldine, 765. North Island "Weekly Press" Shield' Woodville No. 1, 798. ,'..., South Island "Weekly Press" Shield: ' Wainiato, 71DI Tho North Island. Government Challenge Shield was not awarded, as- all tho leading, •competitors failed to comply with/the conditions .guiding, the'eom-petition.-.Vi .-v. ' .:v-,.,-;m ; ',,- ~ Tho■..Colonial.-"Ammunition'.'Company's ..Cupsi'competition/fane for , .Aupklahd and Hawke's Bay districts),'- rosnlted , iri; a tie between Lieutenant C. Hind,--No, 1-Com-pany, Woodville' (81), and Buglar A. U'Lean,' No. il 'Company, Waihi, and this has yet to bo , decided. Tuo'C.A.C. Cup for tho combined district of: Jty'analci, Wanganui,' and Wellington, was'won by Colour-Sergeant Lorimer,. Gre'ytown (82); for the combined district of Nelson, Grey, Mivrlborough; -.and -North and South Canterbury: Colour-Sergeant Farnio, Gorakline (83); combined district, of Otago nnd Southland: Colour-Sergeant Cowie, ■Tokomairiro. (81). , ■ ■ ■'■■• : - v'■-;-.. ■ Tlia; Wanganui",' championship Defenco 1 League's challenge belt, for .■:::■, cadet shooting, to bo. accompaniod . a'nimally by a championship gold medal, and also a champion team challenge shield and annual medals for members of the winning team,' will bo-'fired for , this ■ season under tho following con-' tlHions:— '..;'.. Tho competitions are open to cadets' attending schools in the primary depart-' ments of tho public schools of tho Dominion up to and including Standard VI. The firing for the champion .team shield, shall count for tho Champion Belt; members of. Cadet corps who havo not been chosen as members of the ,team may, however, shoot individually for the belt. No further iiring by members of tho team shall bo allowed for tho belt. The competition . for. the . belt, shield., and medals shall be fired for at 200 yards,' lying, ten counting-shots, and a sightingshot. Targets:, ML- by 4ft.;, bull's-eye, circular, 1 lit.; inner circle, 2-Jiiu; magpie, circle, 30in.; outer, remainder of ■ target. Scoring: Bull's-eye. 5, inner 4,,mngpio 3, outer 2 points. ' . ':'. . . , ■, " A handsome shield trophy has been presented by tho "Winchester -Repeating Arms Company of America, for competition by the junior cadets of New Zealand, nn .22-AYinchester-miniatnre-riile ranges. Tho conditions of the competition will be published in Cadet Orders later.'