DAYLIGHT PARADES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2211, 25 July 1914, Page 9

DAYLIGHT PARADES

FOR COUNTRY CADETS. Wlien General Sir Alexander Godley.' (Commandant ,of 't'ho Now; Zealand , Forces) attended the New Zealand Farmers' Union Conference on Wednesday, and discussed with tho delegates i the" •'■■ working, or' the Defence system as it", affects tho men on the land, the ques- •. :' tion of daylight'parades for senior ca«, dets was urged by several o£ tho dele-j : -. gates. Yesterday the Defence authori- i. ties forwarded,to the conference a'copy) of the following instructions which hadj been issued that day from General Headquarters:— ■ ; ■ i "Training of Senior Cadets and General; , Training Section ia Country triots. ' ■, ■_■ "., 'V , V : , "Failing voluntary concentrations .for, \ Senior Cadets and general training sec- \ J tion in couutry'districts, tho! GeneralOfficer Commanding wishes you to en- .! , courage as uiucli aspossible tHo conver-... v sion of-drills by Senior Cadet-s m'coun-; ' , try districts into whole day parades;]' In fact, he would go so far as to sa.y,j -; that drills for such units should bo thoi. .'_. exception rather than tho rule; Four,] ,,'.' cadet drills of one hour and a half can! bo converted into one whole, day .pa- ; rade, and by this means the miuimum; amount of inconveuienco will be caused • to employers in country districts, aricV . ■ especially to the farming community."* i-.-