Rough on Cadets

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 92, 21 January 1888, Page 3

Rough on Cadets

"jPollex," in the Auckland Herald, aftef the Mtone 1 dnd bricks and things' got iiito T the Auckland; grown fleeces sent-to England further expounds : — And 'then- f or i the' dags. It is all right, "fenbugb^.fb* thd sheepmasters'iofr'tfiawkle's Bay and ,ej«ewhferi&<tp'-hoiast of the absence <.£ q^s. For it is veryrwßiijkiidwnvthat: they 'haye f alafg p e;ija.uiuteerß,:..«f? gentjlemen cad eta - the. sons iof , good families in Eoglaudi—who -af© sent tout with? iheaVya-iprenuiutias to learn colonial experience ; and- tbat these are 'engaged; ai:rair.ttle;in.:;th.e jintelf; lectijal aud ennobling- pursuit of " dajggiagjihee.p^i; Jt know-it^ ; ,fQr},l; hay 4 reaU;iit;i» these .columns in the intei-esting sketches of i.A Tramp," who' refords.ijtj as] among the singular features of the woplgrowing, profession that; he found large' huniber^ of fti'ese Bci'ens of the families of the English gentry— iyouihß from Eton; and; Harrow,! and ; the Universities — whoseMn'dulgent parents have them to the care of our shepherd kings for the completioii *oi their elducationj' auiit wboke; piii*uit ' of "knowledge^ - is. ;thej purduit'of -dags', i -: Such a .reLation/fox-i istirie between dags aiidf'.caclets, we have^at once the solution -of the difficulty. The presence of icadeteiippliest the absence of da^s, and the presence of dags indicates the absence of icadets,-? andithe cadet system not; being. igen r; eral.'in Auckland perfectly accounts for the appearance, of dags jin,, the, shorn rfeeoes, just ajs>the jstqnes.and r&nf&n. are attributable to .the übiquity *of the f&adill bpjjwithout havipg^resofit '|o^he unchaijitablainsinuation of . th^ cimimercial immorality of our local woolgrowers,- as- made /byH Captain Colbeck. 1 } V_i_±tlS2 ' { ' ] "' ( ' :