Rough on Cadets.

Feilding Star, 24 January 1888, Page 3

Rough on Cadets.

" Ppllex," in the Auckland Herald, aftef the MtoW afod bricks and things' got into T the Auckland; grown fleeces sent-to England further expounds : — And 'then, for t fch©' dags. It is all right, >fent)ugh>.fo^ the sheepniasters-' ot^Hj&wWa Bay and of the absence <f q^jga. For it is verytwßiijkndwnvthatr they haye f :ilafge;i .numbers of! gentlemen cad ets - the. sons : iof , good families in England*— who:;fcfe sent tout :TCith?ahea>vy:ZjpreniiutiQß to learn colonial experience ; and- that these are jengafepdr a8;:a-jr,ttle/in:|th.e iintel-f; lectiial and ennobling- pursuit of " dajgging;ihe.p.p^ t :; Jt know -it^ ioriJ; hay 4 reail;iit;i» -thesis cplu.mns in the lhtefesting sketches of 'J. A Tramp," who' refoi'ds.ijti as; among the singular features of the woplgrpwing, profession that, he found large' hiiaiber^ of fti'ese sci'ens of the families of the English gentry— iyoufiis from Eton; and? Harrow,! and j thi3 Universities — whoseMndulg'ent parents have them to the care of our shepherd kings for the completion: -oi their educationv stw&i whose; =pu"i«uit *of ia ,thej pursjuit'of -dags'. 1 -: Such a .relationileXi-i istinjg between dags andf.cadets, we haveat once the solution -of the difficulty. The presence of :cade& applies the absence of da^s, and the presence of dkgs indicates -txfe absence of ;Qadets r and jthe cadet system ; not- being ,gen ri eraliin Auckland perfectly accounts for the appearance, of dags .in ,, the , shorn deeoes, just m> the rg tqnes and ; are attributable to .the übiquity *of the sMall bpy iwithout havipg^resofib '|o^ne unchai:kable. insinuation .of,, th^ coinimercial immorality of our local woolgrowers,- as' 'made /byli Captain Colbeck.' >- * ■''- > ■■'■ <.?. l{ " -' {; —^-''-'-'i