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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 204, 24 May 1920, Page 4

The principle that Cadot officers taking Cadet work cutsido school hours should be paid for that work, was urged at the annual conference of secondary school teachers on Saturday. It mot, however, with very sti-ong opposition from Major Williams, M.C., Major Broad ana Captain F. 11. Renner. These speakers stressed the fact that logically all Territorial officers who gave their services freely would have to bo paid if tho above principle were insisted upon. Major Broad said that one of the finest things about Territorial and Senior Cadet training was the faot that officers gave their timo and energy ungrudgingly and without pay. He agreed wj,lii Major Williams that if payment for Cadet work were insisted upon, then extra payment would havo to be asked for and demanded for all teachers who undertook the control of games, the publication of the school magazine, ctc. Captain Renner deplored the tendency to. ask for pay for every little bit that meant extra work. Ho personally was proud that the secondary school Cadet units had supplied something like 10,000 nion for the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. To his mind, military drill, in fostering esprit de corps, fostered esprit de school and had a direct effect on the discipline and tone of the school. The remit endorsing the principle of payment was earned.