A COLLEGE "BARRACKS"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 213, 28 May 1918, Page 9

A COLLEGE "BARRACKS"

IN WELLINGTON TO-DAY. A four days' "barracks" for military training for Senior Cadets will be held nt Wellington Collego, commencing from !).30 a.m. to-day. The system of "barracks" at secondary schools was inaugunited some time ago, and has been successfully carried out in Christchurch, Wangunui, Wa'itaki, and other high schools. In tlieao previous cases, however, tho colleges have been institutions in which there has been a largo proportion of boarders, so that it has beon possible to have the Cadets .actually in barracks at night and under military discipline from "reveille" to "lights out." In the case or Wellington College, however, most of the boys are day pupils there boing only about sixty boarders in a school of about 500. Therefore the "barracks" on this occasion will bo on somewhat different lines from those held previously. Tho officers and cadots of the college companies, some 480 in all, will .be under the command of Lieutonant-Colonel J. A. Slceman, Director of Military Training, from 9.30 a.m. to 4.10 p.m. Captain 1\ Martyn Bonner, of tho College Cadets, will be second in command.

The'work to be done will commence with elementary training, working up in tho final stages. to the more advanced operations of attack and defence of positions and outpost work. Friday afternoon, tho last day of the "barracks," will bo a parents' day, when tho fathers and mothers of cadets will bo given an op. portunity of learning tho nature of the work done, and the progress made. The afternoon will also be somewhat of the nature of a ceremonial parade with a march past, etc.