MILITARY ETIQUETTE.
To the Editor of the Evening' Star, Sir, —ln answer to the questions of your correspondent, and which appeared in the Evening Star, I hasten to inform him that never during the ten years that I have been a volunteer (both in England and New Zealand), have I ever seen the commanding officer of a battalion smoking when on drill. Conduct such as this, tends both to lower the volunteer movement in the eyes of the public generally, and to raise a feeling of supreme disgust among the volunteers themselves. I hope sir, that the Major may have some good excuse to offer—such as, ■‘being afflicted with asthma, and advised by the doctor to do so, for such a glaring breach of military discipline.—Yours &c.. Volunteer ok Ten Year’s Standing. ’ Dunedin, 29th April, 1870.
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2183, 6 May 1870, Page 2
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136MILITARY ETIQUETTE. Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2183, 6 May 1870, Page 2
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