MILITARY UNITS FOR CATHOLICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1128, 16 May 1911, Page 4

MILITARY UNITS FOR CATHOLICS.

AROUSING IXTIiKEST. vby XolciiraDh.-Boceiai Corrcfjiondcnt.l Auckland, iiay 15. Tiio proposal oi lusuvp deary luav ua.ii.% (.una MK'iud iiu esUunsueu lor. iouins auvi ineii 01 the iwwun Catholic liiiui, lo be organised Uhuer ouiuis and' chaplains of the same religion, hae aroused much interest. Tno arranging ol the matter Willi the military nutaoriUes lias been entrusted to Chapiain-Lap-tain' liolurooK, and tho proposal is intended to cover, if possib.c, men ot all ages liable to c-oinpuisory training. lather llolbrook explained last evening that the organisation oi such corps, as lar as juniors Here concerned, would be simple. Already t,',ere is a basis to work upon. Cadet corps exist nt the Sacred Heart College and the Marist lii-alliers' School, ami the idea was simply to bring into line with them the other vouths between the ages of li and IS years of ago to firm Catholic, corps. With the older youths, between 18 aim 21, tho position was loss simple, ior there was no existing organisation to start from, but, with (lie >yiupatliy and help oi the military authorities, he .behevrd that no dillieultv would arise in forming, say, ono company in a battalion. It would be (iWiivnii-diort Irani tin l oilier companies in nri wav exeejit by'its religion. Dr. Weary state-Hint, '.he, idea has been ill his mind fur Mime time jiast. In (In l circumstances of thir. time ami country he was a Hi-.vou-h-xaiii.'; believer ill Ihe il'dy of national defence, and i« every boy knowin" military lll 'i" ;,,d discipline am! learning lo' shoot straight. In a very sivci-il wav he desired lo see every Catholic lj.ty under his spiritual jurisdiction prepared to do Ihe utmost duty to h's counlry if '-he call should come, and., for this purpose, he esteemed it a pri-1-lene to assist the Defence Depart nieh'; •» xlTc utmost extent in Ilia power.