MILITARY CAREERS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1983, 13 February 1914, Page 6

MILITARY CAREERS.

FOR NEW ZEALAND BOYS.' '"I a-rn glad to see that the nublio U fcecomiiip; alivn to the career \yliich the New. Zealand Sk-fT'Corps-oner, , ' , said the Headmaster of Christ .-Oollege-, Ch.rfsttiiiiMi, (Mi\ E. A, lieiehcf), jesterdjay at a, conimemorjitlon ih a .reference, to the orjpor.hin.itjes.affof.dcd boy.? of aH tlasos, irrespective of. means, of training for service as , officers of the .Keiv . Zea.Taiid bofe.nco Forces at the Ko.ygl Militnrj. College, at Dimtr.tioh.' , The cotopctiiiidii ')&■ certainly likely to he keener as years' .go oiij" continued the' speakea-i "it is a carijqr whioli lias tli,e Unique- merit of bei;ng open to rich end poM alike,, slid for tile, ftitiuiate succcsb of flic Defeiibe iphitoe it will, I hope., attract a -share of the b'qst brains,of the cdUntrj\ The Arniy Council have agreed to pi'qnosals made to thq.m by i-ho .N.civ Zealand Gdverijmfrut drtriitg tho pii6t ywi'r, ttnd *ill assign three Sandhurst cadqtsliips: e.ftch ;haif-y«ai: io Now .JJ-ba-land caiidifdates. Thcsp candidates will bo cMunincd in .Now Zealand, i'he.v will go tilFOilgli tlm $a.mq eo.ui'so as -other cadets, do at Sandhufst, tut at tlio end of- their time will have -the option of entering the Invpefi-aE A-riiiy ot returning to K*)V -Zoalmid-. Som's of theni. \vi-H, -douWes-s, clioose. the former. Others, I hope, will return to tliis country, and will, devote their loisoire to Territorial work. I regard, this concession as a h.tgjily valilahlo .α-no-— it ts, in fact, o'ii.e of those links ftf Eiiipi-fc w-hteh o-ijglit not to be lightly cast aside." ■