JUNIOR CADET "OFFICERS."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1503, 27 July 1912, Page 13

JUNIOR CADET "OFFICERS."

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, July 2G. A meeting of Junior Cadet. officers was held this aftornoOu.to consider criticisms recently passed oil the Junior Cadet system. Remarks recently made by General Godley were tho subject of very emphatic oomments, and tho following resolutions were unanimously carried: — (1) "That this meeting of Junior Cadet officers strongly protests against any action, .calculated to bring Junior Cadets under tho control of tho Defence Department." (2) "That this meeting of Junior Cadet officers expresses its general satisfaction with the present niar/gement of tho Junior Cadet force, and strongly disapproves of such proposed alterations as turning it into a body of scouts or depriving boys of their uniforms." (3) "That this meeting of Junior Cadet officers requests Major D. W. Dunloy to represent its views , to the authorities at Wellington." (4) "That, in the opinion of thio meeting of Junior Cadet officers, no change should bo mado in (a) tho control of Junior Cadets, or (C) the syllabus of work for Junior Cadets without either submitting tho proposed alterations to Junior Cadet officers for their opinion, or conferring with the representatives' appointed by them." . ' ' (5) "That the Junior Cadet officers of Auckland read the remarks of General Godley before the Education Com.mission on tho inefficiency of the teachers who carry tho titlp of- officers, but lmvo no commission, desire to state that several of those teachers, in reliance unon tho regulations, have qualified thomsolves by examination Tor those commissions, only to find that thoso invaluable commission's havo been finally withheld."