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TLe Manchester Rifles will hold a parade (undress)' on Friday evening next at 7.30 sharp. The Wanganiii Herald writes : — How long are the Volunteers, especi ally the country ones, to be kept in a | state of suspeuceas to their re-organ-isation? The partially-paid system, if adopted,, will j assuredly haye the •effect of leading ito the extinction of the country Volunteers, who are to be superseded by rifle clubs. This is the Edwards idea, as well as the idea -of the present Defence Mm ister, though we ? find that the Colo trial Defeuce Committee sitting iv liondon have pronounced decisively against rifle clubp as worthless from a defence point of view. The thorough and effectual re-organisation of the Volunteers is one of the greateat reforms required at the present time. .If the Liberals come into power, this should be one of their ifirst works, and if it is done well, it will £am for them a jarge amount of support tkroughout the country.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 77, 16 December 1890, Page 3
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